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Classical antiquity5 quotes
I would rather be tied to the soil as another man's serf, even a poor man's, who hadn't much to live on himself, than be King of all these the dead and destroyed. — Homer · 700 BCIn a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life. — Lucretius · 50 BCThe hour which gives us life begins to take it away. — Seneca · 65Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out. — Seneca · 65Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life? — Euripides · 400 BCOld Testament Era2 quotes
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. — Ecclesiastes 9:5 · 931 BCFor a living dog is better than a dead lion. — Ecclesiastes 9:4 · 931 BCAncient World1 quote
Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again. They are seen between two unseens. Why in this truth find sorrow? — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCThe Renaissance1 quote
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580