“O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.”

— Sidonius Apollinaris

How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death!
Lib. 8, Ep. 11, sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 463.
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Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop 430–489

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