Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca

c. AD 64 · Roman Empire

Listen: noise of every kind is ringing all round me. I live right above a bathhouse. Now picture every sort of sound that can make one hate one's own ears.

Ecce undique me varius clamor circumsonat: supra ipsum balneum habito. Propone nunc tibi omnia genera vocum quae in odium possunt aures adducere

Letters to Lucilius 56

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Choe Chiwon 崔致遠

c. 900 · Silla Korea · After he gave up office and went into Mount Gaya

Rushing wildly over piled rocks, it roars through range on range, and a human voice can hardly be made out a step away. Always afraid that talk of right and wrong might reach my ears, I have had the running water wrap the whole mountain round.

狂奔疊石吼重巒人語難分咫尺間常恐是非聲到耳故敎流水盡籠山

Goun jip, book 1, "Written at the Reading Hall on Mount Gaya"

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Juvenal Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

c. AD 110 · Roman Empire

What am I to do in Rome? I do not know how to lie. If a book is bad, I cannot praise it and ask for a copy.

Quid Romae faciam? mentiri nescio; librum, si malus est, nequeo laudare et poscere

Satire 3

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