“Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.”

Book III, ode i, line 14 (trans. John Conington)
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)

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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BC

John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar

Book III, ode i
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

“The dead are free from Fortune; Mother Earth has room for all her children, and he who lacks an urn has the sky to cover him.”
Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellus quae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia

Book VII, line 818 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia

“And make death proud to take us.”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“This evil man has proclaimed June as the month to be proud of abominable sins against God!… God then affixed the death penalty for doing what the LGBT fags do, fornicating day and night, and what Obama gratuitously said we must be proud of!”

Fred Phelps (1929–2014) American pastor and activist

2000s, Fag-Lover Obama (2009)

“Death has been the great leveler/ Of all honour, glory and name./ None can take anything with them/ To their tomb! Death! The sobering fact/ Of all our yearnings and longings!/ “What does it profit a man …”/ If he cannot take any of the things/ To his grave.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher

Death: Live It! p. 32.
Death: Live It! (2005)

“Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation, 2008-09-15, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-31 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/events/node/154, <br class="br">2000s, 2008

“The upper and lower ends of a humerus are like the brim and base of an urn. The shaft of the bone is like the belly of the urn. Fragments, even minute ones, of the detailed parts of a bone are like the indicator sherds of a broken urn. Fragments, even large ones, of the shaft of a bone are like the body sherds of a broken urn. Analyzing bones, after all, is very much like analyzing pottery.”

Jeffrey H. Schwartz (1948) American anthropologist

Source: What the Bones Tell Us (1997), Ch. 1 Everything You Wanted to Know about Bones (and More)

“Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.”

Bianca Jagger (1945) Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice (12 March 1900)
1900s

“Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.”

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