“If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.”
Si fractus illabatur orbis,
impavidum ferient ruinae.
Si fractus illabatur orbis,
impavidum ferient ruinae.
Book III, ode iii, line 7
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“Should the whole frame of Nature round him break,
In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
And stand secure amidst a falling world.”
Translation of Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iii.
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