All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave.
世界上到处都是蠢人，青年是快活的，老年是忧郁的。青年是挥霍，老年是节俭，二十岁时发疯，五十岁时冷;人从生到死，都是愚蠢的奴隶。