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He whom the gods love, dies young.

Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur

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Derived from Menander's The Double Deceiver. The Menander line (quoted by Stobaeus) is: ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος (hon hoi theoi philousin apothnēskei neos)

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