“Nor is there place for Death.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
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“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”
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 -->
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.
“The love where Death has set his seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,
Nor falsehood disavow.”
And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-thou38.html (1812).
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
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.”
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)
“T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.”
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”
The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)
The Bubble, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).