ars longa, vita brevis
Latin
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Etymology
A Latin translation of the Ancient Greek of a phrase from Hippocrates' Aphorisms, section 1, number 1: “Ὁ βίος βραχύς ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρά (Ho bíos brakhús hē dè tékhnē makrá)”.
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