Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people read more

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall read more

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or read more

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...