“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
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Walt Whitman 181
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“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981

[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]

Quoted in "Mussolini: Twilight and Fall" - Page 129 - by Roman Dąbrowski - Italy - 1956

“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“To me death is better than the defensive.”
Quoted in W. Lyon Blease, "Suvorof," 1926.