“No blessing lasts forever.”

—  Plautus , Curculio

Curculio, Act I, scene 3, line 32
Curculio (The Weevil)

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Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.

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Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BC

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