“Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Savonarola (1881), Girolamo Savonarola in Act I, sc. iv; p. 49.
“Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.”
II, i, 46.
Elegies
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“Let each man have the wit to go his own way.”
Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xxv, 38.
Elegies
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“Remote from man, with God he passed the days;
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.”
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The Hermit, line 5.
“[ There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Variant: Look upon him, O my Thebans, on your king, the child of fame!<br>This mighty man, this Œdipus the lore far-famed could guess,<br>And envy from each Theban won, so great his lordliness—<br>Lo to what a surge of sorrow and confusion hath he come!<br>Let us call no mortal happy till our eyes have seen the doom<br>And the death-day come upon him—till, unharassed by mischance,<br>He pass the bound of mortal life, the goal of ordinance.<br>[ Tr. E. D. A. Morshead http://books.google.com/books?id=i7wXAAAAYAAJ (1885)] <br class="br">Variant: People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus.<br>He solved the famous riddle, with his brilliance,<br>he rose to power, a man beyond all power.<br>Who could behold his greatness without envy?<br>Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him.<br>Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day,<br>count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.<br>[quoted by Thomas Cahill in Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea] <br class="br">Source: Oedipus Rex, Line 1529, Choragos.
Sukarno (1901–1970) first President of the Republic of Indonesia
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 914
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