Horace Quote

But you, though in the very shadow of death, place contracts for cutting marble slabs, and build houses without giving a thought to your tomb.


Odes bk. 2, no. 18, l. 17


But you, though in the very shadow of death, place contracts for cutting marble slabs, and build houses without giving a thought to your tomb.

But you, though in the very shadow of death, place contracts for cutting marble slabs, and build houses without giving a thought to your tomb.

But you, though in the very shadow of death, place contracts for cutting marble slabs, and build houses without giving a thought to your tomb.

But you, though in the very shadow of death, place contracts for cutting marble slabs, and build houses without giving a thought to your tomb.