Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true,This soul should fly from me, and I be changedUnto some brutish beast!All beasts are happy, for when they die,Their souls are soon dissolved in elements;But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.
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Christopher Marlowe, spoken by Faust in Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus (c. 1593)