We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

Nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armis. Luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem.

Juvenal

Satires

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Topic

Decadence

Author

Juvenal

Source

Satires

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Latin

Time

127 120s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 6.

Current Citation

Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 6.

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Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Isaiah 2:4).

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The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

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Topic
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Source
Pacem in Terris
Medium
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Genre
Papal encyclical Religious literature
Language
Latin
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
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Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Doubt and skepticism

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1819 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999, no. 281.