Quote of Publius Vergilius Maro - It is easy to go down...
Biography - Publius Vergilius Maro:
Roman poet.
Born: -70 - Died: -19
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Italy
Born: -70 - Died: -19
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Italy
It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
See also...
Quotes about death:
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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