“That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
On Tranquility of the Mind
“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
— Thomas Merton, book No Man Is an Island
Source: No Man Is an Island
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat
Reported in, C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. (1917).
L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
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Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
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“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for war crimes
To Leon Goldensohn, 6/6/46, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Concurring, Dennis v. United States, 339 U.S. 162, 184 (1950).
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