Famous Final Words From 18 Powerful Icons
Powerful people making powerful last statements.
Published 10 years ago in Feels
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Archimedes: “Stand away, fellow, from my diagram!”Archimedes was killed during the Second Punic War. According to the historian Plutarch, a soldier reportedly asked the mathematician to go with him to Marcellus. However, Archimedes refused to do so until he finished the problem he was working on. Enraged, the soldier killed him.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Some reports say that Beethoven, who was deaf by the end of life, said“I will hear in heaven ”While others suggest that he said“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est” (applaud, friends, the comedy is finished).However, still others say that after a publisher brought the composer 12 bottles of wine, his final words were:“Pity, pity, too late!”
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