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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.


Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which ...
EPICURUS Love should never mean having to live in fear.
DASHANNE STOKES Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is not the certainty of death that we fear but more so the certainty of fear that death brings.
EMANOUHL Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
BEN JONSON It is a not a fear of death but rather a fear of ending life unfulfilled.
SIR WALTER SCOTT We should live without fear in our cities.
STEPHEN HARPER One should never fear sorrow because it is the stepping stone to happiness,
RIG VEDA Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEH The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he...
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as fear until you allow it to enter your heart. If I told you what really hap...
SUZY KASSEM Never fear failure if any endeavour is taken.Desire for success should be greater than your fear of ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS Love should be the encouragement of faith, not fear. Fear is temporary, love is eternal!
DR.LIRIDON DISHA Do not fear death, for it is natural; but, fear the unnatural act of not living the dream.
SCOTTIE SOMERS A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
EPICTETUS One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with sh...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to liv...
NATALIE BABBITT A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
MARCUS AURELIUS Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wo...
JULIUS CAESAR Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death is certain. Nobody can escape it. Then why fear death? Live till you die!
RVM He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflict...
ED MCBAIN As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not...
BRANDON SANDERSON We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
MARILYN MONROE Do not fear death, but fear of living with no meaningful endeavor.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE Fear not death; fear not having lived.
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to u...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingnes...
LOBSANG TENZIN If fear was a man he would never take risks.
FRITZ CHERY God-fearing?! Why should man fear God? Human beings were created in the image of God. God is love, m...
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of al...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
O...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Christian man should not strive to die for his family. Rather, he should live for his family.
JAIME CONTRERAS I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the close...
ALAN CUMMING Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything b...
LEO TOLSTOY Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is n...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, say...
WILLIAM PENN Fear not death, for it is your destiny.
BEN SIRA Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not t...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
HUEY NEWTON The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any tim...
MARK TWAIN How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you b...
SHIRIN EBADI Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fea...
MEG CABOT Fear, not living the dream; do not fear death.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death
ROTIK THE MARATHI RAPPER Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to b...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
ECKHART TOLLE Life should be lived without being cowed by the fear of death,for both have different destinies.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Gavin de Becker talks about this in his wonderful book The Gift Of Fear. He talks about how the word...
AMY POEHLER We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.
WARREN EYSTER Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LIVY Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or he...
JONATHAN WINTERS A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationship...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no rel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows...
SOCRATES When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist withou...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant....
MARCUS AURELIUS Animals’ primal fear remains linked to survival. As man overcomes his fear of physical danger, he ...
AKRAM ABU HAMDAN I have seen death face to face and returned to the world of living beings. I have savored the fear o...
MANOJE BASU We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares...
ANN LANDERS Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Ma...
DAN FARMER He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I came into this world, not cheifly to make this a good place to live in, but live in it, be it good...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Fear reigns supreme in this world,but fear should be discarded for faith.For miserable fear is a def...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But if that person has nothing to fear, nothing to hide, and is just being approached politely, that...
MICHAEL ROACH No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
GEORGES BERNANOS A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a p...
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose ...
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble...
JOANNA BAILLIE A woman's general. What should we fear?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
BERTRAND RUSSELL A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
CHARLES HUGHES A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
RAINER MARIA RILKE A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he ...
JOHN KEBLE Do not fear death... only the unlived life.
You don't have to live forever;
You just have to...
NATALIE BABBITT Man is nothing that he should boast about,but if at all he should boast,it should be about the fact ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Do not fear death, fear sleeping without waking up instead
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and ne...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” �...
FRANCINE JAY It's a political piece. It is full of ideas and that's the reason I was drawn to it. The central iss...
HUGO WEAVING Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really mat...
FRANCIS CHAN Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who t...
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MARCUS AURELIUS It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;...
MARCUS AURELIUS We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b...
MARCUS AURELIUS A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to...
MARCUS AURELIUS Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio...
MARCUS AURELIUS For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not ...
MARCUS AURELIUS From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...
MARCUS AURELIUS He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam
MARCUS AURELIUS 'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
MARCUS AURELIUS The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
MARCUS AURELIUS I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume
MARCUS AURELIUS Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
MARCUS AURELIUS The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...
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