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- To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
- Peter de Gaston Levis
- Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Life without the courage for death is slavery.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Deep is a wounded heart, and strong
A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light. - Felicia Hermans
- A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
- Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The first condition of immortality is death.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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