"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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