“It is the lot of man but once to die.”
Book V, no. 7.
Emblems (1635)
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“To leave is to die a little, but to die is to leave a lot.”
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Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
A pun on the first verse of the poem Rondel de l'adieu by Edmond Haraucourt.

“Saints do not die. It is their lot,
To die while on this earth to all that God is not.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer

As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson

Waldersee in November, 1877, as quoted by Gordon Alexander Craig, "Germany, 1866-1945" (Oxford University Press, 1978) p.133

“We die only once, and for such a long time!”
On ne meurt qu'une fois; et c'est pour si longtemps!
Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), Act V, sc. iii