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Cowards die many times before their deaths,Julius Caesar 2.2
The valiant never taste of death but once.
All the world's a stage,As You Like It 2.7 (I love the entire monologue, but it's a bit long for a 'quote')
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
“I drink [champagne] when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I’m thirsty.” Lilly Bollinger
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble--and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Solzhenitsyn
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races. Darwin
"I find myself quoting me more and more often. It's not an ego thing, really. It's just that I'll read something that I wrote somewhere, and think, "Wow. That guy really gets me." Then I'll end up using the quote in conversation, and I always feel a little twinge of guilt for not giving proper attribution."
-IRFH, 2010
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." - Charles Bukowski