“No fairer law in all the land
Than that death-dealers die by what they've planned.”
Book I, lines 655–656 (tr. Len Krisak)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Original
Neque enim lex aequior ulla est, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.
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Ovid 120
Roman poet -43–17 BCRelated quotes
“Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman”
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?”
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 4: Unstoppable
“Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.”
Divine Poems (ed. 1669). Compare: "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011.
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Behold this sea, that sapphire sky!
Where nature does so much for man,
Shall man not set his standard high,
And hold some higher, holier plan?
Some loftier plan than ever planned
By outworn book of outworn land?Where God has done so much for man,
Shall man for God do aught at all?
The soul that feeds on books alone —
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,—
A soul that has not learned to read.</p
The Shepherd's Resolution; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?", Sir Walter Raleigh, Poem.
