Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est
Vivere bis vita posse priore frui.

Martial

Epigrams

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Topic

Memories

Author

Martial

Source

Epigrams

Medium

Epigram

Language

Latin

Time

103 100s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Spain Europe

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Martial. Epigrammata [Epigrams]. c. 102 AD, bk. 10, no. 23.

Current Citation

Martial. Epigrams, translated by Gideon Nisbet. Oxford University Press, 2015, bk. 10, no. 34.

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Another quote from Classical antiquity

For what should a man live, if not for the pleasures of discourse?

Plato

Phaedrus

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Topic
Good conversation Purpose of life
Speaker
Phaedrus

Author

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

Socrates. Quoted in Φαῖδρος [Phaedrus], written by Plato. c. 370 BC, section 258e.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in "Phaedrus." Plato: Lysis; Symposium; Phaedrus, written by Plato, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2022, sect. 258e.

Another quote originally in Latin

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics

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Topic
Truth and falsehood

Author

Baruch Spinoza
Source
Ethics
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
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. 2, prop. 42, proof.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 2, prop. 42, proof.