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• Life without the courage for death is slavery. -- Seneca
• The fear of sponge-cats is the beginning of wisdom.
• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
• Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. -- Mark Twai
• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Death...
• To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
  -- Anaximene...
• Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. -- Bertolt Brech
• Faster, faster, till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. -- H.S. Thompso
• LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...