"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men."

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"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."

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"Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate."

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"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh."

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"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."

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"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

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"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break."

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"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."

Berenice Abbott, American Photographer

Death, Life, Positive, Act

"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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"Normality is death."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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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

Death, People, Humanity

"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."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Death, Tyranny

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

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."

"Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate."

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh."

"God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself."

"In soft regions are born soft men."

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change."

"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break."

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"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."

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

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

"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."

"Normality is death."

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

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

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

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