"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

John Green, American Author

Death, Life, Grief, Reflection, Acceptance

"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

John Green, American Author

Death, Truth, Life, Reality

"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

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"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

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"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."

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"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."

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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

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"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."

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"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

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"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."

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"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."

"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."

"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."