Brevity of lifeAs he looked out over the whole Hellespont, whose water was completely hidden by all his ships, and at all the shores and the plains of...
Life is shortAt drinking parties of wealthy Egyptians, they always follow the end of their dinner by having a man carry around a corpse made of wood...
Shortness of lifePliny the Younger, I confess, if I had not the reward of an immortal reputation in view, I should prefer a life of uninterrupted ease and...
Live like you are dying"What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? For no matter what you do you will have to be overtaken by death. If you have...