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Maior pars mortalium, Pauline, de naturae
malignitate conqueritur, quod in exiguum aevi gignamur, quod haec tam velociter, tam rapide dati nobis
temporis spatia decurrant, adeo ut exceptis admodum
paucis ceteros in ipso vitae apparatu vita destituat.
Nec huic publico, ut opinantur, malo turba tantum
et imprudens 1 volgus ingemuit; clarorum quoque
virorum hic affectus querellas evocavit. Inde illa
maximi medicorum exclamatio est: 'vitam brevem
esse, longam artem ';
1 imprudens inferior MSS.: impudens A.
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