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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life

I am not the least afraid to die

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages