About death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aT5rhOU1Cw
Καλοδεχούμενος όταν έρθει αρκεί να με βρει όρθιο και δυνατό
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”
“As he saw it, there was only one choice — to be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.”
"Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 46.
A Tryst With Destiny (1947)
Source: Quicktime excerpt http://www.harappa.com/wall/nehru.html and in: Rediscovery of India, The: A New Subcontinent http://books.google.com/books?id=XRpFol4AnO0C&pg=PA191, Orient Blackswan, 1 January 1999, p. 191
Excerpts from his speech delivered on the eve of declaration of Independence, on 14 August 1947, at the midnight hour declaring Independence of India on 15 August 1947.
Context: Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea, they become powerless when they oppose it.”
“Life that dares send
A challenge to his end,
And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!”
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
From Ferrar, Derek (March 2006). "Papa Mau's Legacy". Ka Wai Ola o OHA. 23 (3):12.
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong, it calms me.”
El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
Voces (1943)
