“But there is nothing sweeter than to dwell in towers that rise
On high, serene and fortified with teachings of the wise,
From which you may peer down upon the others as they stray
This way and that, seeking the path of life, losing their way:
The skirmishing of wits, the scramble for renown, the fight,
Each striving harder than the next, and struggling day and night,
To climb atop a heap of riches and lay claim to might.”
Book II, lines 7–13 (tr. Stallings)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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Sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrina sapientum templa serena, despicere unde queas alios passimque videre errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae, certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate, noctes atque dies niti praestante labore ad summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.
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Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book

“The world's a wood, in which all lose their way,
Though by a different path each goes astray.”
"A Satyr upon the Follies of the Men of the Age", line 109; cited from The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 156
Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?, p. 59

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 316.