"Tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam libens."—Hor. Carm., lib. III. ix.
5. "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."—1 Cor. xv. 32.
"Convivæ certe tui dicunt, Bibamus moriendum est."—Senec. Controv. xiv.
6. "Be not thou afraid though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him."—Ps. xlix. 16, 17.
"How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not;
To whom related, or by whom begot:
A heap of dust alone remains of thee.
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be."—Pope.
"Divesne, prisco natus ab Inacho,
Nil interest, an pauper, et infima