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The saying "those whom the gods love die young" comes from this story.
His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage, 'Those whom the gods love die young'.
"It commenced thus: 'It has been truly said that those whom the gods love die young!'
There is something indecent about comments from the living on the fate of the dead, and to say that 'those whom the gods love die young' is to assume an unsuitably Olympian pose.