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Glory paid to
our ashes comes too late.
-- Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and
epigrammatist
The final
event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he
fell like the stick.
-- Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American
Political Theorist, Writer
Glory is the
shadow of virtue.
-- Latin Proverb
Sayings of Latin Origin
I have touched
the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full
meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
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