“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
Four VII
is 5 (1926)
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“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”
Part III, Section XXIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society.”
L’art de la parenthèse est un des grands secrets de l’éloquence dans la Société.
Maximes et Pensées, #243
Maximes and Thoughts, #243

Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.

“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.
Part IV, Prop. LXVII
Ethics (1677)