“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IV, 5
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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