98.
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has gone, and the first of that which is coming: so it is with time present.
99.
A long life is a life well spent.
Life
100.
As a well spent day affords happy sleep, so does a life profitably employed afford a happy death.
Time the Destroyer
101.
O time, consumer of things! O envious age! Thou dost destroy all things, and consumest all things with the hard teeth of old age, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept, and wondered why she had twice been ravished. O time, devourer of things! O envious age, by which all is consumed!