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Nay, Seneca adds niceness and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.
The Essays 2007
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Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; cibus, somnus, ludus per hunc circulum curritur; mori velle non tantum fortis, aut miser, aut prudens, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.
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This species is closely allied to the _P. fastidiosus_ of Saussure, and, notwithstanding the difference in colouring, may possibly, I think, be an extreme variety of that species.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Nay, Seneca adds niceness6 and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest [Think how long thou hast done the same thing; not only a valiant man or a miserable man, but also a fastidious man is able to wish for death].
II. Of Death 1909
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Terrae of course goes with fastidiosus, not with dominus.
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847
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Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; cibus, somnus, ludus per hunc circulum curritur; mori velle non tantum fortis, aut miser, aut prudens, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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cum famulis dominusque terrae fastidiosus: sed Timor et Minae scandunt eodem quo dominus, neque
High and Low, Rich and Poor Horace 1912
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