And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu.

Lucretius Carus

De Rerum Natura

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Topic

Nature of life Life

Author

Lucretius Carus

Source

De Rerum Natura

Medium

Poem

Genre

Philosophical literature Didactic poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

55 BC 50s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 971.

Current Citation

Lucretius. The Nature of Things. Translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin, 2007, bk. 3, l. 971.

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Another quote about Life

Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Portable Atheist

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Topic
Living life to the fullest Life and death Life Death

Author

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Source
How (and Why) I Became an Infidel The Portable Atheist
Genre
Religious literature
Language
English
Time
2007 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. "How (and Why) I Became an Infidel." The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, edited by Christopher Hitchens. Da Capo Press, 2007, ch. 47.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Socrates

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

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Getting started
Speaker
Socrates

Author

Plato
Source
Republic
Medium
Philosophical dialogue Dialogue
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
375 BC 370s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. 375 BC, 2, 377a.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. Translated by G. M. A Grube and C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing, 1992, 2, 377a.

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]. 1677, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics. Translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge UP, 2018, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

Cymbeline

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Topic
Randomness Fortune
Speaker
Pisanio

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Cymbeline
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1611 1610s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline. 1611, Blackfriars Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

Current Citation

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