"Very few people are acquainted with death...." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.”

“Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.”

“It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.”

“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”

“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?”

“Death offers mankind a full view of truth.”

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.”

“Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.”

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”