"They" (that is, the moments as they pass) "slip by us unheeded, but are noted in the account against us."
What could Chrysostom or Augustine have said stronger or better? The whole epigram is so good that I venture to transcribe it.
"AD MARTIALEM DE AGENDA VITA BEATA.
"Si tecum mihi, care Martialis,
Securis liceat frui diebus,
Si disponere tempus otiosum,
Et veræ pariter vacare vitæ,
Nec nos atria, nec domos potentum,
Nec lites tetricas, forumque triste
Nôssemus, nec imagines superbas: