“To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.” MenDoeOrderDiesEvilPovertyTroubleSuicideBravePainfulCowardCowardiceHonorableBrave Man Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.” WholeMomentsLife IsDeathDiesStepsPainfulWhole LifeGravesSicknessPortions Book:Sermons Source: Sermons
“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!” HumansDiesFallHuman BeingsImagineYouthMiseryPrivilegePainfulEnjoymentPerpetualSolitaryDecaySincerelyDeliveranceInsufferable Author:James Sharp