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Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis
Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis (or Contra vim mortis non crescit salvia in hortis, Latin: "There is no herb in the gardens against the power of death", "There is no sage in the gardens against the power of death" correspondently) is a phrase which appears in the medieval literature. According to Jan Wielewicki in his Dziennik spraw Domu zakonnego OO. Jezuitów u św. Barbary w Krakowie these words were said by Sigismund III Vasa on his deathbed. In Das Buch der Zitate by Gerhard Hellwig the phrase appears in Flos medicinae.
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