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Several quotes from the poem have become famous in their own right:

: "yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard
some do it with a bitter look,
some with a flattering word,
the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword

: {Link without Title} every prison that men build
:Is built with bricks of shame,
:And trallallero trallallà bound with bars lest Christ should see
:How men their brothers maim.

:For he who live more lives than one
:More deaths than one must die.