“Glory paid to ashes comes too late.”
I, 25, line 8.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Original
Cineri gloria sera venit.
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Martial 31
Latin poet from Hispania 40–104Related quotes

Poem "O das quinas", first couples.
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Original: Os Deuses vendem quando dão.
Compra-se a glória com desgraça.
Ai dos felizes, porque são
Só o que passa!

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 261]
Context: In Hindus, when a person dies he is cremated in fire. Sarada Devi is referring to this as "three pounds of ashes".
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 3 (Taran)

“She'll come back as fire
burn all the liars
leave a blanket of ash on the ground”
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle.
Song lyrics, In Utero (1993)

Horatius, st. 26 & 27; this quote is often truncated to read:
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Context: Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods, And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?"

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”
Source: Scenes from a Writer's Life

“If glory comes after death, I hurry not.”
Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.
V, 10 (trans. Zachariah Rush).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)