Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Hesiod
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
Bodhidharma
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace