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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. – Plautus

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius

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Life is a predicament which precedes death. – Henry James

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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. – Lao Tzu

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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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