“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.” MenMayDoeRunningDiesEvilCausesCommunityMoralRiskSourceDiseaseLosingLaborMadnessWineSpeciesPreservesPoisonDisorderIdlenessQuarrelsBrutesVigorDegradeAversion Author:Francois Fenelon
“The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.” KnowsHumansRealityPastDiesAskingMereBusyAbsenceMeaningfulDenialPreservesImmortalityMortalityWoeDefianceDenial Of Death Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.” IfsGivingNightDiesWealthFireSeaHonorFortunePreservesRoughDecaySlipperyRough Seas Author:Francis Quarles
“When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.” TryingDiesPreserves Author:Garth Brooks