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- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
- Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790-1793)
- There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Olynthiac
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard’s Almanac (1758)
- I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
- Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
- Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- Death hath so many doors to let out life.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), The Custom of the Country (1647)
- One does not learn how to die by killing others.
- Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848), Memoirs (1826-1841)
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