Keepकष्टं चिरतरं कालमनर्थोऽर्थधिया मया ।अज्ञानमदमत्तेन कालेन स्वेन सेवितःIn plain wordsAlas, for so very long a time I served ruin in the belief that it was gain — I, drunk with the intoxication of ignorance, through the whole of my own time.