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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, I. 8, p. 770-71, 1922.
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.