Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis,
Ut prisca gens mortalium,
Paterna rura bubus exercet suis,
Solutus omni faenore.

Horace

Epodes

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Topic

Farming Agriculture Simple living

Author

Horace

Source

Epodes

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

30 BC 30s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Epodi [Epodes]. 30 BC, epode 2, l. 1.

Current Citation

Horace. "Epodes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, epode 2, l. 1.

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Another quote by Horace

I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

Horace

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Immortality through art Artistic legacy Art Poetry

Author

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. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 30.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk, 3, no. 30.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:12

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Topic
Forgiveness of sins
Source
Psalms The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Hebrew
Time
450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 103:12).

Another quote originally in Latin

It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics

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Bragging and boasting

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. 3, prop. 55, note.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 3, prop. 55, note.