Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.