"All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end."

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“The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave.”

“Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.”

“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.”

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.”

“Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.”

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Entertainment1950

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