"Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death"
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"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
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"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
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"Death is no more than passing from one room into another."
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"The world is the mirror of myself dying."
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"Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."
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"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."
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"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life."
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"We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing."
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"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
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"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
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"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
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"No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well."
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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."
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"Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering."
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"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
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"Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come."
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"It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work."
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