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• At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Sight, Laughing

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• Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Age, Sound

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• I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

  Rajneesh

  Love Life, Littles, Ordinary

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• No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Way, Born

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• Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.

  Laozi

  Intelligent, Persevere, Enough

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• 450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.

  Jane Elliott

  Children, War, Believe

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• The envious will die, but envy never.

  Moliere

  Envy, Envious

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Tartuffe (1664), V, 3, 1922.

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• The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

  Will Durant

  Doe, Individual, Mankind

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1957). “The Story of Civilization: The Reformation”

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• All men are born truthful and die liars.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Liars, Lying, Men

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• The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Men, Talking

  "Letters and social aims". Inspiration. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1875.

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• I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Real, Men, Heaven

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• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.

  Francois Fenelon

  Running, Wine, Men

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• Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

  William Shakespeare

  Affliction, Bears, Cry

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.798

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• I almost die for food, and let me have it!

  William Shakespeare

  Eating, Let Me

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Son, Patriotism

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

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• We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

  Eric Hoffer

  Military, Moving, Fighting

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Italian, Men, Despair

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• A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Circles, Sound

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• Without music I should wish to die.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Music, Wish To Die, Should

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Swans, Singing, Apollo

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", I. 30, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 772-73,

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• Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Thinking, Differences

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.

  Edwin Arnold

  Wise, Eye, Men

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.80, Routledge

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• It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

  Juvenal

  Poverty, Madness, Rich

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