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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher
Death, Life, Heaven
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

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"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."

Lucius Accius, Italian Poet
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"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist
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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher
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"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet
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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

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"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

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"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."

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