Life & Death Sayings

God's teeth, I would rather die than renounce my faith!

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.

Fear is for the weak. I am Shaka.

Fear too often spells failure.

I would rather die an Indian than live a white man.

I would rather die than surrender.

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.

Let all historical records but those of Qin be destroyed.

I did not allow anyone to terrorize the land of Sumer and Akkad.

The greatest evil is not to be good, but to be bad when one has the power to be good.

I have been nourished by books, and I have found in them a great deal of good as well as a great deal of evil.

In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

He who is led by fear and does good to avoid evil, is not guided by reason.

The monads are perpetually changing, but they are never destroyed.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.