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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health
Our life is made by the death of others
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying
Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor
The goal of all life is death
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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