Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. "Aha, my little dear," I say, "Your clan will pay me back one day."

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The last act is tragic, however happy all the rest of the play is; at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end for ever.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.