“3330. Man begins to die before he is born.”

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.”

“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.”

“As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.”
Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.

“The gnani is afraid of nothing. But he pities the man who is afraid. After all, to be born, to live and to die is natural. To be afraid is not. (…).”

“Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.”

“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”

“The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.”