“He has joined the great majority.”

—  Petronius , book Satyricon

Sec. 42
Variant translations:
He’s gone to join the majority [the dead].
He has gone to the majority.
(i.e. He has died.)
Satyricon

Original

Abiit ad plures.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update May 19, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "He has joined the great majority." by Petronius?
Petronius photo
Petronius 11
Roman courtier, supposed author of the Satyricon 27–66

Related quotes

Edward Young photo

“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”

Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet

The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.

William Wordsworth photo

“But who, if he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined
Great issues, good or bad for human kind,
Is happy as a Lover.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 48.

Norman Tebbit photo

“He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.”

Norman Tebbit (1931) English politician

[Source: The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Volume 3, p. 437.]

Richard Rohr photo

“When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Larry the Cable Guy photo

“A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis.”

Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist

Source: Git-R-Done (book), p. 5

Bud Selig photo

“Major League Baseball has not forgotten and will never forget the great contribution and sacrifice that Jackie made to baseball and to all of society”

Bud Selig (1934) American baseball executive
Laisenia Qarase photo

“I think it would be a pity if Chaudhry brushed aside majority Fijian opinion on a major issue. He has done this before and it will be a sad day for Fiji if he does that again this time.”

Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji

Additional remarks about the proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, Response to continuing opposition to the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill, 30 July 2005

“For the great majority of mathematicians, mathematics is”

George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992) British mathematician

100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
Context: For the great majority of mathematicians, mathematics is... a whole world of invention and discovery—an art. The construction of a new theorem, the intuition of some new principle, or the creation of a new branch of mathematics is the triumph of the creative imagination of the mathematician, which can be compared to that of a poet, the painter and the sculptor.

Peter F. Drucker photo

“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 327

Tzvetan Todorov photo

“For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.”

Tzvetan Todorov (1939–2017) Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist

Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)

Related topics