You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.