Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.