“So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.”
Book III, line 118 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Original
Usque adeo solus ferrum mortemque timere auri nescit amor.
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus 58
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“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,”
No. 10, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Context: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“And death?
I don’t fear death.
I dread the absence of it.”
Divided by Infinity (p. 195)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)
“Death, one experiences alone
Love is a two-person thing”
"Love is a Two-Person Thing" ["Aşk İki Kişiliktir"] (1994)
Variant translations:
The only thing experienced alone is death
Love requires two people
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Source: Moab Is My Washpot
“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”