“No life is short that gives a man time to slay himself.”
Vita brevis nulli superest qui tempus in illa
quaerendae sibi mortis habet.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IV, line 478 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.”
One of a series of exchanges when Richard Owen repeated generally repudiated claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture. Athenaeum (13 April 1861) p. 498; Browne Vol 2, p. 159
1860s
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