Life & Death Sayings

The papacy is the kingdom of the devil, and the pope is the Antichrist.

If there are hundreds of moons and thousands of suns, without the Guru, there is only utter darkness.

The examination of the body after death is a most useful and necessary practice.

If I die you are my killer, O merciless, infidel woman.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Myself always wallowing in drunkenness, fornication, adultery, filth, murders, rapine, despoliation, hatred and all sorts of evil-doing.

All good things proceed from God, and all evil things from ourselves.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

It is the lot of man to suffer; but it is also his lot to alleviate the sufferings of others.

He who studies the stars does not fear the darkness.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is a sure way to lose the confidence of all present.

God's death! I will have but one mistress here and no master.

I would rather suffer a hundred times than be a slave.

I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of a bad reputation.

You must not fear death, gentlemen; death can only be a release from misery.

I am a man of flesh and blood, and not of wood.

One must suffer to be beautiful.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.