Hold it the greatest wrong to prefer life to honor and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
¶ Satires
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Juvenal (c.55-127) Roman satirist [Decimus Junius Juvinalis]
Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
¶ Satires, no. X
(Dryden trans., 1683)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
[Who will guard the guardians themselves?]
¶ Saturæ, VI.347
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