Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus
Omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis,
Hoc virtutis opus.

brief is life but love is long

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.

(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

"Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile" (Life is short, [the] craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult)

Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.

Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.

For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered.

To live your brief life rightly, isn't that enough? (Hays translation)

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?

There isn't time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving--and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. (Hays translation)