Si bene calculum ponas, ubique naufragium est.
'If you reflect well on it, life is a shipwreck everywhere.'


Qualis nox fuit illa, di deaeque,
quam mollis torus! Haesimus calentes
et transfudimus hinc et hinc labellis
errantes animas. Valete curae
mortales. Ego sic perire coepi.
'O gods, O goddesses - what a night was that!
How soft the bed, as we hotly clung
to one another, and with every wandering kiss
we poured our souls into each other!
I bade farewell to mortal cares,
and so began to die.'



-from Petronius' Satyricon