Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.
The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
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