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Sophocles’s Momento Mori

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Charles François Jalabeat, Antigone Leads Oedipus Out of Thebes (1849)

Let every man in mankind’s frailty

Consider his last day; and let none

Presume on his good fortune until he find

Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς), Oedipus the King (Oἰδίπoυς τύραννoς), l. 1529 (429 BCE)

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THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
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