"There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."
― Jean de la Bruyere
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Death
― Jean de la Bruyere
More From Jean de la Bruyere
- "Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."
- "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
- "Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
More In Death
- "That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."― Friedrich Schiller
- "Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."― Horace
- "A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies."― Gustave Flaubert