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Page vi - Conversis studiis aetas animusque virilis Quaerit opes et amicitias, inservit honori, Commisisse cavet quod mox mutare laboret. Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, vel quod Quaerit et inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti, Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri, Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.
Page xii - portentaque Thessala rides? Natales grate numeras ? Ignoscis amicis ? Lenior et melior fis accedente senecta ? Quid te exempta levat spinis de pluribus una? Vivere si recte nescis decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo
Page vi - equis canibusque et aprici gramine campi, Cereus in vitium flecti. monitoribus asper, Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris, Sublimis cupidusque et amata relinquere pernix. Conversis studiis aetas animusque virilis Quaerit opes et amicitias, inservit honori, Commisisse cavet quod mox mutare laboret. Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, vel quod Quaerit et inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti, Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, Dilator, spe
Page xii - Non es avarus : abi; quid, caetera jam simul isto Cum vitio fugere ? Caret tibi pectus inani Ambitione ? Caret mortis formidine et ira ? Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos
Page xii - Vivere si recte nescis decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo Kideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.
Page ii - Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis ; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis sevum.
Page i - Solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus, et ilia ducat.
Page iii - Ira furor brevis est; animum rege, qui nisi paret Imperat; hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce catena.
Page iv - Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim Si pede major erit subvertet, si minor uret
Page iii - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum.