Luke 12:19

I will say to my soul, Soul "What folly! Had thy soul been a sty, what else couldst thou have promised to it? Art thou so bestial, so ignorant of the soul's goods, that thou pledgest it the foods of the flesh? And dost thou convey to thy soul, the things which the draught receiveth?" St Basil.

for many years "Boast not thyself of to morrow," Proverbs 27:1.

take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry More energetically in the four words of the original, rest, eat, drink, enjoy. His motive is the same as that of the selfish and cynical Epicureans, who say, "Let us eat and drink;" but the reason he assigns is different. They snatch pleasure, "for to morrow we die" (1 Corinthians 15:32); he because he hopes to be "happy" for "many years." For similar warnings see James 4:13-17; James 5:1-3; Ecclesiastes 11:9.