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Sophocles’s Momento Mori

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Let every man in mankind’s frailty
Consider his last day; and let none
Presume on his good fortune until he find
Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

—Sophocles (????????), Oedipus the King (O????o?? ??????o?), l. 1529 (429 BCE)

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