Probitas laudatur et alget - Juvenal

count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour, and to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life worth having.

Who could identify fragments 260 of ownerless flesh and bone? The poor man’s flattened carcase would vanish along with his soul.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!