Euripides writes:
“Why? seeing the wealth we have uncertain is,
Why don’t we live as free from care, as pleasant
As we may?”
Similarly also, the comic poet Diphilus having said:
“The life of men is prone to change,”—
Posidippus says:
“No man of mortal mould his life has passed
From suffering free. Nor to the end again
Has continued prosperous.”