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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.