Executed People

"Ecce parens verus patriae."

"Clarum et venerabile nomen gentibus."

"Coniunx est mihi, sunt nati; dedimus tot pignora fatis."

"Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellus quae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam."

"Plus est quam vita salusque quod perit: in totum mundi prosternimur aevum."

"Vivit post proelia Magnus sed fortuna perit."

"Lucanus ardens et concitatus et sententiis clarissimus et, ut dicam quod sentio, magis oratoribus quam poetis imitandus."

"Quod defles, illud amasti."

"Etiam periere ruinae."

"Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre paratis."

"When I consider that Lucan died at twenty-six, I cannot help ranking him among the most extraordinary men that ever lived."

"O vitae tuta facultas pauperis angustique lares! o munera nondum intellecta deum!"

"Cum tot in hac anima populorum vita salusque pendeat et tantus caput hoc sibi fecerit orbis, saevitia est voluisse mori."

"Facinus quos inquinat aequat."

"A prima descendit origine mundi causarum series."

"Audendo magnus tegitur timor."

"Nec tantum prodere vati quantum scire licet."

"Multos in summa pericula misit venturi timor ipse mali. Fortissimus ille est qui, promptus metuenda pati, si comminus instent, et differre potest."

"Quidquid multis peccatur inultum est."

"Jamque comes semper magnorum prima malorum saeva fames aderat."

"Discite, quam parvo liceat producere vitam, Et quantum natura petat."

"Phoenices primi, famae si creditur, ausi mansuram rudibus vocem signasse figuris. nondum flumineas Memphis contexere biblos noverat: et saxis tantum volucresque feraeque sculptaque servabant magicas animalia linguas."

"Vita brevis nulli superest qui tempus in illa quaerendae sibi mortis habet."

"Usque adeo solus ferrum mortemque timere auri nescit amor."

"Ignorantque datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses."

"Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro. in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis."

"Non sibi sed domino grauis est quae seruit egestas."

"Sed quo fata trahunt virtus secura sequetur. Crimen erit superis et me fecisse nocentem."

"Hi mores, haec duri inmota Catonis secta fuit, servare modum finemque tenere naturamque sequi patriaeque inpendere vitam nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo."

"Sit caeca futuri mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti."

"Non tam portas intrare patentis quam fregisse juvat."

"Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores."

"Sic quisque pavendo dat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorum quae finxere timent."

"Sed Caesar in omnia praeceps, nil actum credens, cum quid superesset agendum."

"O faciles dare summa deos eademque tueri difficiles!"

"Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat."

"Vos quoque qui fortes animas, belloque peremptas Laudibus in longum vates dimittitis aevum, Plurima securi fudistis carmina, Bardi."

"Longae...vitae Mors media est."

"Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum aut mors ipsa nihil."

"Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum; sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbem curribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi."

"I have also read the four first books of Lucan's Pharsalia, a poem as it appears to me of wonderful genius and transcending Virgil."

"Exim Annaei Lucani caedem imperat is profluente sanguine ubi frigescere pedes manusque et paulatim ab extremis cedere spiritum fervido adhuc et compote mentis pectore intellegit, recordatus carmen a se compositum, quo vulneratum militem per eius modi mortis imaginem obisse tradiderat, versus ipsos rettulit, eaque illi suprema vox fuit."

"Libertas ultima mundi quo steterit ferienda loco."

"All my days I have been troubled by the verse: "With all your soul", meaning: Even if God takes your soul. I said to myself: When will the opportunity be afforded me to fulfill this verse?"

"Rabbi Yehuda said: This was the custom of Rabbi Akiva, when he would pray with the congregation he would shorten (his prayer) and go up, due to encumbrance on the congregation. But when he prayed by himself a person would leave (Rabbi Akiva alone) in one corner and find him in another corner. And why so much? Because of his bows and prostrations."

"(To his 24,000 pairs of students) My (Torah knowledge) and yours are hers (his wife)"

"Nothing in the entire world is worthy but for that day on which The Song of Songs was given to Israel"

"Who is wealthy?... Rabbi Akiva says: Anyone who has a wife whose actions are pleasant"

"Rabbi Tarfon said: Akiva, anyone who separates from you, it is as though he has separated from life"

"A fence to wisdom is silence."