We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati.

Horace

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Topic

The human condition

Author

Horace

Source

Epistles

Medium

Essay

Language

Latin

Time

21 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Epistles. 1st century BC, bk. 1, poem 2, l. 27.

Current Citation

Horace. The Epistles of Horace: Bilingual Edition. Translated by David Ferry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, bk. 1, poem 2, l. 27.

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I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

Horace

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Immortality through art Artistic legacy Art Poetry

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

Horace. Odes. bk, 3, no. 30, l. 1.

Current Citation

Horace. Odes. Translated by Niall Rudd. Harvard UP, 2004. (Book, 3, No. 30, Line. 1.)

Another quote about The human condition

Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job

Job 1:21

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Topic
God is in control God The human condition
Speaker
Job
Source
Book of Job The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Hebrew
Time
-500 -500s 6th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 1:21).

Another quote from Classical antiquity

Only two things does he anxiously wish for—bread and circuses.

Juvenal

Satires

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Topic
The masses Entertainment Purpose of life Decline of civilization

Author

Juvenal
Source
Satires
Medium
Poem
Language
Latin
Time
127 120s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, no. 10, l. 80.

Current Citation

Juvenal. "The Futility of Aspirations?" The Satires. Translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford UP, 2008, no. 10, l. 80.

Another quote originally in Latin

To every action there is always opposed an equal
reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon
each other are always equal, and directed to contrary
parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

Author

Isaac Newton
Source
Principia
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1687 1680s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, trans. I. Bernard Cohen, et. al. U of California P, 2016, law 3.