"The vulture fastens on his timid prey, And stabs with bloody beak the quivering limbs: All's well, it seems, for it. But in a while An eagle tears the vulture into shreds; [...] Thus the whole world in every member groans: All born for torment and for mutual death."
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Voltaire, "Poem on the Lisbon Disaster", Toleration and Other Essays (1912), pp. 258–259
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