"Extremum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vivendum, as Hermolaus told Alexander in [2191]Curtius, worse than death is bondage: [2192]hoc animo scito omnes fortes, ut mortem servituti anteponant, All brave men at arms (Tully holds) are so affected. [2193]Equidem ego is sum, qui servitutem extremum omnium malorum esse arbitror: I am he (saith Boterus) that account servitude the extremity of misery. And what calamity do they endure, that live with those hard taskmasters, in gold mines (like those 30,000 [2194]Indian slaves at Potosi, in Peru), tin-mines, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... name Mr. Monk and Mr. Finn. I might perhaps add myself, were it not that I had hoped that in any event I might at length regard myself as exempt from further service. The old horse should be left to graze out his last days, Ne peccet ad extremum ridendus. But you can't consider yourself ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope
... two days earlier, he had given a copy of the New Testament, saying:—'Extremum hoc munus morientis ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... heaven? Earlier in his career he expresses in language less definite, but still sufficiently clear, his ideas as to another world: "An vero tam parvi animi videamur esse omnes, qui in republica, atque in his vitae periculis laboribusque versamur, ut, quum, usque ad extremum spatium, nullum tranquillum atque otiosum spiritum duxerimus, vobiscum simul moritura omnia arbitremur?"[331] "Are we all of us so poor in spirit as to think that after toiling for our country and ourselves—though we have not had one moment ...
— The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope |
