Jean de La Bruyère - Death Quotes

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So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them.

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Death is a passage: the more rapidly it is crossed, the better.

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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

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A long illness seems to be placed between life and death, in order to make death a comfort both to those who die and to those who remain.

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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

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There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

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