Read moreI believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content.
Read moreAn ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Read moreA man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
Read moreDeath is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Read moreIf some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Read moreWe should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.