"I depart from life as from an..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is a great thing to know your vices.”

“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”

“If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.”

“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.”

“All life is an experiment.”

“I have no wish to take life, not even human life”

“When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.”

“ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!”

“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”