
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
As quoted by Augustine of Hippo in De Trinitate, Book XIII, Chapter III
Omnes mortales sese laudarier optant.
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
“O Light Invisible, we praise Thee!
Too bright for mortal vision.”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”
Entry (1952)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.
"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7
“All the Good of mortals is mortal.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune
"An Hour" (1972), trans. Czesŀaw Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
From the Rising of the Sun (1974)