“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”
Ian Fleming book The Spy Who Loved Me
Source: The Spy Who Loved Me
“So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.”
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, book Pharsalia
Book III, line 118 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
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