“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 17, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
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Quoted in Sallust, Catiline's War, Book XX, pt. 9 (trans. J. C. Rolfe).
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“Philosophies, like old soldiers, do not die, they merely fade away.”
Pragmatism and the Outlook of Modern Science (1966)
XV. 563–564 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
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