The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

Juvenal

Satires

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Topic

Traveling lightly Travel

Author

Juvenal

Source

Satires

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

Latin

Time

2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Juvenal. Satire X. 2nd century.

Current Citation

Juvenal. "Satire 10." The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature. Edited by Peter E. Knox and J. C. McKeown. Oxford UP,

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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

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Source
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Medium
Novel
Genre
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Language
French
Time
1923 1920s 20th century
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Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière [The Prisoner]. À la recherche du temps perdu [Remembrance of Things Past]. 1923.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 5. Penguin, 2019.

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:1

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Beginning of time God and time
Source
Gospel of John The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Citation

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

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.

Another quote of the following type Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

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Speaker
Gandalf

Author

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source
The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings
Medium
Novel
Genre
Fantasy
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1954 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 10.