For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminenceabove a beast

Ecclesiastes

Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,

Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,

Resembling sire and child and happy mother

Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:

Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,

Sings this to thee: ‘Thou single wilt prove none.’

William Shakespeare