Don't fool yourself. You will never live long enough to read all those moral commentaries you planned to study. You won't read the histories of famous Romans and Greeks. You won't get through those excerpts from books you've been saving for your old age. Stop putting things off and give up these empty hopes. Help yourself now while you still can, if you truly care about yourself.
Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral commentaries, nor the acts of the famous Romans and Grecians; nor those excerpta from several books; all which thou hadst provided and laid up for thyself against thine old age. Hasten therefore to an end, and giving over all vain hopes, help thyself in time if thou carest for thyself, as thou oughtest to do.