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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

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You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the ...more

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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

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Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

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That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements ...more

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There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.