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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.

I’m attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I’ve had a lot of it in my life.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.