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Corporis et fortunæ bonorum ut initium finis est. Omnia orta occidunt, et orta senescunt. As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.— SALLUST — Jugurtha. II.
Corporalente augescent, cito extinguuntur. Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.— TACITUS — Agricola. II.
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