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(65 BC - 8 BC) Verified "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." Translation: "It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland." Source: Odes III, 2, 13 "Pulvis et umbra sumus." Translation: "Dust and shadow we are." Source: Carmina (Book IV, 7, 16) "Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." Translation: "As I speak; flees cruel time. Reap the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow." Source: Odes I, 11, 8 Attributed "Ars longa, vita brevis." Translation: "Art is long, life is short." "Aurea mediocritas" Translation: "Golden Mean" "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit." Translation: "Captive Greece conquered her savage victor." In Translation Anger is short madness.
Verified "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." Translation: "It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland." Source: Odes III, 2, 13 "Pulvis et umbra sumus." Translation: "Dust and shadow we are." Source: Carmina (Book IV, 7, 16) "Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." Translation: "As I speak; flees cruel time. Reap the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow." Source: Odes I, 11, 8 Attributed "Ars longa, vita brevis." Translation: "Art is long, life is short." "Aurea mediocritas" Translation: "Golden Mean" "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit." Translation: "Captive Greece conquered her savage victor." In Translation Anger is short madness.