Death as equalizer

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The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same things.

Marcus Aurelius

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 2.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 2.

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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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

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Raleigh, Walter. The Historie of the VVorld / In Five Bookes. London: Ben Jonson, 1614, bk. 5, ch. 6.

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