Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage or my house when I propose to take a residence so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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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It is not tolerable it is not possible that from so much death so much sacrifice and ruin so much heroism a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.