I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.