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- It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
- The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- Death's brother, Sleep.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] - Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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