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sic transit gloria mundi
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Definition:1. [literally] Thus passes the glory of the world2. worldly things are fleeting3. fame/beauty is fleeting
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the candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “Sic transit gloria mundi.”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
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As I crossed the passage I glanced at the coffin and Madame Mimotih reading over it. I strained my eyes in vain, I could not recognise in the swarthy, yellow face Zina, the lively, pretty ingénue of Luhatchev's company.
"Sic transit," I thought.
Anton Chekhov. Love and Other Stories.
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