"The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve."
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"After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators."
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"It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago."
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"If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said."
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"God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most."
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"Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown."
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"Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd."
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"There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches."
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"Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death."
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"Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues."
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"Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last."
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"The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared."
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"What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay."
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"I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust."
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"There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End."
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