I weep not for thee, O dearest of friends; for thou knewest many fair things; and again God dealt thee thy lot of ill.
XXII THE VOYAGE OF LIFE PALLADAS
Life is a dangerous voyage; for tempest-tossed in it we often strike rocks more pitiably than shipwrecked men; and having Chance as pilot of life, we sail doubtfully as on the sea, some on a fair voyage, and others contrariwise; yet all alike we put into the one anchorage under earth.
XXIII DAILY BIRTH PALLADAS
Day by day we are born as night retires, no more possessing aught of our former life, estranged from our course of yesterday, and beginning to-day the life that remains. Do not then call thyself, old man, abundant in years; for to-day thou hast no share in what is gone.
XXIV THE LIMIT OF VISION AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Now we flourish as before others did, and soon others will, whose children we shall never see.
XXV THE BREATH OF LIFE PALLADAS
Breathing thin air into our nostrils we live and look on the torch of the sun, all we who live what is called life; and are as organs, receiving our spirits from quickening airs. If one then chokes that little breath with his hand, he robs us of life, and brings us down to Hades. Thus being nothing we wax high in hardihood, feeding on air from a little breath.