Livia, ever mindful of our union, live on, and fare thee well. Augustus Caesar (On his deathbed)
Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa
“It is the pomp of death that alarms us more than death itself”. This is taken from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, a Latin poem from 8 AD.
Of Death
MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.
Get What You Need
Possessions beyond the amount that will give us a clean, healthy life in clean surroundings often accumulate passions and desires that will govern the brain and shut us out from our sovereignty in Nature’s higher counterpart.
The law of Proserpine is needed so that man will first acquaint himself with his own inner possessions ere entering the world of Mammon.