“Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.”
Source: The Odes of Horace
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“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
Source: The Odes of Horace
“Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.”
Source: The Works of Horace
“He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.”
“In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]”
“Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.”
“Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.”
“Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.”
Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering
“I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.”
“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.”
“Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.”
Source: The Complete Works of Horace
“One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.”