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Cicero: Once more, you see that nothing is so like death as sleep.

On the record44 BC
Once more, you see that nothing is so like death as sleep.
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Cicero

Editor's note · Context

In a philosophical dialogue on the nature of the soul, Cicero draws a parallel between sleep and death.

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