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Death

A person who has courage and faith will never die in misery. – Anne Frank.


Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. - Plato.


Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. – Socrates.


Death is not the worst that can happen to men. - Plato.


Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates.


Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think. – Socrates.


From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. – Socrates.


Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? - Plato.


No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. - Plato.


No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. - Plato.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. - Plato.


Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. – Socrates.


People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. - Plato.


The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. – Socrates.


The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever. – Anne Frank.


To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? – Socrates.


To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. – Aristotle.


Work as if you were to live 100 years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin.


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