"I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?"

-- Voltaire

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“I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.”

Source : Zachary Taylor, Smith PYNE (1850). “Obituary Addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Z. Taylor ... in the Senate and House of Representatives ... with the funeral Semon by the Rev. S. Pyne, etc”, p.8
“People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.”
“There was a point at which I thought I'd never get the most valuable player, especially the years I played at Minnesota. We never won a pennant there, we were far away from the big media centers of Los Angeles and New York, and I wasn't a flashy power hitter but a guy who hit to spots, who bunted and stole bases.”
“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”
“I learned French before I learned Spanish.”
“If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.”
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
“There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.”

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