"Tel homme qui dans un excès de mélancolie se tue aujourd'hui aimerait à vivre s'il attendait huit jours."
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week. — "Cato" (1764)