“The brave can death despise,
And dies contented, if with fame he dies.”
Un magnanimo cor morte non prezza,
Presta o tarda che sia, pur che ben muora.
Canto XVII, stanza 15 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
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Un magnanimo cor morte non prezza, Presta o tarda che sia, pur che ben muora.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
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Ludovico Ariosto 97
Italian poet 1474–1533Related quotes

Sunni Hadith
Context: It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.

“God died and His death was the life of the world.”
Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Physik, § 38 ISBN 978-1494963262

“Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind

“When a man dies, he has too many other worries to allow any thinking about death.”
Quando si muore si ha ben altro da fare che di pensare alla morte.
Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), P. 45; p. 55.