
“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
Reported in Will and Ariel Durant, Age of Reason Begins: Volume 7 (1961), p. 240.
“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
#57
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“Let us live – we must die.”
Vivamus, moriendum est.
Book II, Chapter VI; translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 349
Some editions of Seneca prefer the reading Bibamus, moriendum est (Let us drink – we must die).
Controversiae
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 23, 1895)
Letters
“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.”
Original French: Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.
Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journal_debats/an/1792/convention_1792_12_03.htm on the judgment of Louis XVI (3 December 1792)