It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
-
Similar:
| Quote 12568 | Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can... |
| Quote 3387 | The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive t... |
| Quote 12197 | It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. |
| Quote 2037 | Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unle... |
| Quote 13352 | I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing. |
| Quote 6655 | Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand... |
| Quote 4876 | Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring t... |
| Quote 952 | Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall... |
| Quote 10464 | Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. |