Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis (or Contra vim mortis non crescit salvia in hortis, Latin: "There is no herb in the gardens against the power of death", "There is no sage in the gardens against the power of death" correspondently) is a phrase which appears in the medieval literature. According to Jan Wielewicki in his Dziennik spraw Domu zakonnego OO. Jezuitów u św. Barbary w Krakowie these words were said by Sigismund III Vasa on his deathbed. In Das Buch der Zitate by Gerhard Hellwig the phrase appears in Flos medicinae.