Life & Death Sayings

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

The torch of doubt is lit at the moment of our birth and is not extinguished until the moment of our death.

All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others.

The greatest evil is to be unable to correct one's mistakes.

I am not afraid of death because I do not know what it is.

The descent to Hell is easy.

The envious man is his own murderer.