Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement.
Maxim 26. Sometimes incorrectly translated as "with a steady eye".
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”
Martial book Epigrammata
X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest / Live well: how long or short permit to heaven", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book xi, line 553.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Ferenc Dávid (1510–1579) Hungarian noble
His last message, carved onto the walls of his dungeon cell, as quoted in For Faith and Freedom (1997) by Charles A. Howe, p. 109 <!-- Skinner House Books, Boston; also quoted on their web page [LINK now DEAD 2016·03·01] about the Transylvania Unitarian Church (Archive 2007) https://web.archive.org/web/20070717180511/www.emersonhou.org/Transylvania.htm by the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church, Houston --> <br class="br">Context: Neither the sword of popes, nor the cross, nor the image of death — nothing will halt the march of truth. I wrote what I felt and that is what I preached with trusting spirit. I am convinced that after my destruction the teachings of false prophets will collapse.
Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter (1909–1988) Marquess of Exeter
Thus It Is, 1989, p. 6
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings, Thus It Is
“I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.”
T.S. Eliot book The Waste Land
Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 39 et seq.
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in the translation of Thomas Taylor (1818)
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