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65 - Seneca, The Madness of Hercules

Cost of Glory

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The Death of the King of the Third Estate

He's going to give the description of different people dying in different stages of life and kind of states of mind, which they all go down to death. Some move slowly, hardly grieving the years of dull their taste for living. Others run untouched by age, maidens too young to be given in marriage. Blender school boys with hair on shorn and infants still lisping their mother's name. None come too late to that dim shore where none return. Why should men hasten to find their oblivion? The countless multitudes covering earth must come at last to the shadow of death"

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