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Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? (120)
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Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit .
horace— For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.Book I, epistle xvii, line 9.
Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit .
— For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.
— Book I, epistle xvii, line 9.
Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? (120)
— Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
— Variant translation: To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
Non sum uni angulo natus; patria mea totus hic est mundus.
— I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
— Seneca, Epistles, 28; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
