“If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.”

— Horace , book Odes

Si fractus illabatur orbis,
impavidum ferient ruinae.
Book III, ode iii, line 7
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)

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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BC

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