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“Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,--Sleep before Death."”
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- Source:
- Consolation to Apollonius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 16dc465888c069f153455d078dc39246b6e1ac89d7e8b429290f7634f54751e0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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