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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
— Epicurus
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“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
— Buddha
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“Death is the best invention of life.”
— Steve Jobs
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.”
— Paul Walker
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“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”
— Buddha
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“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”
— Jack Kevorkian
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“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
— Lao Tzu
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“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”
— Thomas Paine
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
— Epicurus
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“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”
— Blaise Pascal
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“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
— Sophocles
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“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
— Tennessee Williams
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“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
— Mark Twain
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“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
— Buddha
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“Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
— Confucius
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“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”
— Nelson Mandela
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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
— Ayn Rand
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