"Elämä o itkua ja kirvee hijomista. (Savonia) (KNM)"

"Ei elämä irvistellen somene. (Suoniemi, Tavastia) (SSP)"

": The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart."

"Sein Spruch war: leben und leben lassen."

": His saying was: live and let live."

"From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity f…"

"Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est."

": The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death."

"Vita, si scias uti, longa est."

": Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough."