Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 180.
Canzon, s'uom trovi in suo amor viver queto,
di': Muor' mentre se' lieto,
ché morte al tempo è non duol, ma refugio;
et chi ben pò morir, non cerchi indugio.
Canzone 331, st. 6 ( tr. A. S. Kline http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=331)
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 40.
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
La mort ne surprend point le sage:
Il est toujours prêt à partir.
Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 1.
Fables (1668–1679)
General Thomas Graham, p. 234
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fury (2006)
Letter to George Washington (26 April 1779)
"Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/commontoad.html, Tribune (12 April 1946)
Context: Certainly we ought to be discontented, we ought not simply to find out ways of making the best of a bad job, and yet if we kill all pleasure in the actual process of life, what sort of future are we preparing for ourselves? If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 223
Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”
