Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Original: (la) Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
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“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
James Branch Cabell
(1879–1958) American author
The Gander, in Book Seven : What Saraïde Wanted, Ch. XLV : The Gander Also Generalizes
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Context: Nothing … nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms — poor, deaf and blinded spendthrift! — are none the less valuable for being quoted.
“It's a real problem, but it's nothing like as serious as people are led to believe.”
Freeman Dyson
(1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician
Interview in Salon (29 September 2007) http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/09/29/freeman_dyson/
Context: I believe global warming is grossly exaggerated as a problem. It's a real problem, but it's nothing like as serious as people are led to believe. The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. It distracts people's attention from much more serious problems.
“I trust that it was not a serious dream and then there is nothing now which can be broken.”
Róbert Puzsér
(1974) hungarian publicist
Quotes from him, Csillag születik (talent show between 2011-2012)
“Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.”
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,
quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
Lucretius
(-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book III, lines 830–831 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
