"Inanzi al dí de l'ultima partita huom beato chiamar non si convene."
— Petrarch

January 1, 1970

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Compare: — Ultima semper exspectanda dies hominis, dicique beatus ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet. — Always, A man must wait the final day, and no man Should ever be called happy before burial. — Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III, lines 135–137 (trans. R. Humphries)