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O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.
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How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!
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Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.

 

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