“Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.”

—  Jacques Delille

Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels.
L'Immortalité de l'Âme; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 825.

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