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Historical literature1 quote
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!... Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet (here lies). — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1614Philosophical literature1 quote
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same things. — Marcus Aurelius · 180