A quotation from Propertius

No one has endless fortune, eternal beauty: sooner or later death awaits us all.
 
[Nec forma aeternum aut cuiquam est fortuna perennis:
   longius aut propius mors sua quemque manet.]

Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 2, Elegy 28, l. 57ff (2.28.57-58) [tr. Kline (2001), 2.28a]

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