Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“We weep when we are born, not when we die!”
Source: "The Metempsychosis", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882), p. 139
“As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.”
Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
Book IV, line 16. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays (1580), Book I, Chapter 19.
Variant translation: When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
Astronomica
“We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.”
“We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.”
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
“We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.”
Si nasce come una pagina bianca e si muore come una pagina nera.
