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For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pues el delito mayor
del hombre es haber nacido.

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Notes from Wikiquote

Since man's greatest crime on earth Is the fatal fact of birth. | (tr. Denis MacCarthy, 1873)

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