Qualis artifex pereo!
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Dead! And so great an artist!
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Ch. 49
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Suetonius represents this as Nero's exclamation when he had resolved to kill himself, but not as his last words.Suetonius
Qualis artifex pereo.
Nero (Emperor)
Qualis dominus talis est servus.
Petronius
qualis quisque sit scies, si quemadmodum laudet, quemadmodum laudetur aspexeris.
Seneca the Younger
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
Plautus
The infinite Universe of the New Cosmology, infinite in Duration as well as Extension, in which eternal matter in accordance with eternal and necessary laws moves endlessly and aimlessly in eternal space, inherited all the ontological attributes of Divinity. Yet only those — all the others the departed God took with him... The Divine Artifex had therefore less and less to do in the world. He did not even have to conserve it, as the world, more and more, became able to dispense with this service...
Alexandre Koyre
Suetonius
Sugar, Alan
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