“Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.”

—  Horace , book Odes

Book III, ode i, line 14 (trans. John Conington)
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)

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Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.

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