Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
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When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.
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Thamus ... uttered with a loud voice his message, 'The great Pan is dead.'
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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry which ofttimes ends in choler, bitterness, and morosity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
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