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Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.
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Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.


— The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
— Seneca, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XCVIII.

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Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.


— The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things — bread and circuses!
— X, line 78; see bread and circuses.

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Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses. Time was when their plebiscite elected generals, Heads of State, commanders of legions: but now they've pulled intheir horns, there's only twothingsthatconcernthem: bread and games.


— Of the people of Rome. Satirae, no.10, l.78-81 (translated by Peter Green).'Panem et circenses' is sometimes translated as 'bread and circuses'.

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