“Julio, in those libraries of death
study the bodies of those bones—an assured evil;
and learn from those characters
that they form the abecedary of death!”

— Hernando Domínguez Camargo

En tantas de la muerte liberias,
Los cuerpos de esos huesos mal seguro
Estudia Julio, y en su letra advierte,
que son abecedarios de la muerte!
San Ignacio de Loyola (1666), Poema heroyco ('Heroic Poem of Saint Ignatius of Loyola'), Book IV, Canto 6.
Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 335

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En tantas de la muerte liberias, Los cuerpos de esos huesos mal seguro Estudia Julio, y en su letra advierte, que son abecedarios de la muerte!

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Colombian poet 1606–1659

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