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“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.”
― William Styron

“Macte virtute, sic itur ad astra.

("excellence is the way to the stars" - IX.641)”
― Virgil, Aeneid

“Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
(The gates of Hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this task and mighty labor lies.)”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe.”
― Latin Proverb

“Omnes feriunt, ultima necat.”
― Seneca

“Aequat omnes cinis.”
― Seneca

“Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”
― Alexander the Great

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
― Seneca

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
― Seneca

“Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
― Seneca

“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Lat, urbes constituit aetas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.”
― Seneca

“Nothing is ours, except time.”
― Seneca

“It's not years nor days, but the mind, that determines that we've lived enough.”
― Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

“Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuit

No great talent without an element of madness”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Imperare sibi maximum imperium est”
― Seneca