Enjoy the present day
Idleness had long since grown to be the occupation of his life
It was such a comfort once more to obey an order
Philosophers who wrote of the vanity of writers




THE EMPEROR, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#49][ge49v10.txt]5487

Avoid all useless anxiety
To know half is less endurable than to know nothing
Who do all they are able and enjoy as much as they can get




THE EMPEROR, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#50][ge50v10.txt]5488

Happiness is only the threshold to misery
When a friend refuses to share in joys




THE EMPEROR, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#51][ge51v10.txt]5489

Dried merry-thought bone of a fowl
More to the purpose to think of the future than of the past