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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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