Die.

Whom the gods love die young. This is from Menander’s fragments (Hon hoi theoi philousin apothnēskei neos). Demosthenes has a similar apophthegm. Plautus has the line, “Queen Di diligunt adolescens moritur.” (See Byron: Don Juan, canto iv. 12.) Those who die young are “taken out of the miseries of this sinful life” into a happy immortality.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Dickey or Dicky
Dicky (A)
Dicky Sam
Dictator of Letters
Didactic Poetry
Diddle (To)
Diddler (Jeremy)
Diderick
Dido
Die
Die
Die-hards
Diego (San)
Diēs Alliensis
Diēs Iræ
Diēs Non
Diēs Sanguinis
Dietrich
Dieu
Difference
Digest (The)