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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretended knowledge of the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance?
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five
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