"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

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"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

Pat Boone, American Musician

Death,

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Death, Beauty, Romance, Stillness

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Voltaire, French Writer

Death, Life, Fear, Conscience

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

Death,

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

Death, Guests, May

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death,

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death, Heart, Concern, Will

"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Death, Grief, Emotion, Release

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."

Erik H. Erikson, American Psychologist

Death, Life, Fear, Children

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"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."

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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

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"The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles."

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"You have to study a great deal to know a little."

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"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

Nature

"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."

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"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."

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"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."

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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

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