Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi
Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus
Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
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The best days of life for us poor mortals flee first away; then come diseases, and old age, and labour, and sorrow; and the severity of unrelenting death hurries us away.
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Book III, lines 66-68
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Ah, how fleetly speeds the little span Of lusty youth allowed to mortal man!
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Translated by J. B. RoseVirgil
Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci
Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae,
Pallentesque habitant Morbi tristisque Senectus,
Et Metus et malesuada Fames ac turpis Egestas,
Terribiles visu formae, Letumque Labosque;
tum consanguineus Leti Sopor.Virgil
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.
Virgil
I that in heill wes and gladness,
Am trublit now with gret seiknes,
And feblit with infermité;
Timor mortis conturbat me.
Our plesance heir is all vane glory,
This fals warld is bot transitory,
The flesche is brukle, the Fend is sle;
Timor mortis conturbat me.William Dunbar
Chi prima giugne al mulin, prima macina.
Giovanni Maria Cecchi
Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.
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