Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face.

Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

Juvenal

Satires

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Topic

Travel

Author

Juvenal

Source

Satires

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

127 120s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

Current Citation

Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

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Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Trains Travel

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)
Source
Howards End
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1910 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Horace

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Topic
Living life to the fullest Living in the moment

Author

Horace
Source
Odes (Horace)
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Advice
Language
Latin
Time
23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 11.

Another quote originally in Latin

Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics

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Topic
Pride

Author

Baruch Spinoza
Source
Ethics
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Latin
Time
1677 1670s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

Another quote of the following type Advice

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Being true to oneself Authenticity Personal integrity
Speaker
Lord Polonius

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Hamlet
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1616 1610s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.