For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.
Our life is made by the death of others.
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
We are eternal beings - spirit children of heavenly parents.
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