“O fairer daughter of a fair mother!”
Book I, ode xvi, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
Original
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior
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Horace 92
Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BCRelated quotes
“Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman”
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
Mother o' Mine http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p3/motheromine.html (1891).
Other works
“Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”
Magnalia Christi Americana http://books.google.com/books?id=49JdS7NoSawC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Magnalia+Christi+Americana#PPA63,M1 (The Ecclesiastical History of New England), s. 63 (1702). Mather, commenting on the spiritual condition of the colonies, cited an old saying in Latin: Religio peperit Divitias, et filia devoravit matrem.
La superstition est à la religion ce que l’astrologie est à l’astronomie, la fille très folle d’une mère très sage. Ces deux filles ont longtemps subjugué toute la terre.
"Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition," Treatise on Toleration (1763)
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