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“Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success.”
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, book Pharsalia
In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebus
crescendi posuere modum.
Book I, line 81 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
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