“Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: When Demons Walk
“There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
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Mors dolorum omnium exsolutio est et finis ultra quem mala nostra non exeunt, quae nos in illam tranquillitatem in qua antequam nasceremur iacuimus reponit. Si mortuorum aliquis miseretur, et non natorum misereatur. Mors nec bonum nec malum est; id enim potest aut bonum aut malum esse quod aliquid est; quod uero ipsum nihil est et omnia in nihilum redigit, nulli nos fortunae tradit. Mala enim bonaque circa aliquam uersantur materiam: non potest id fortuna tenere quod natura dimisit, nec potest miser esse qui nullus est.
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