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duration
«By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.»
Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
deduct, deducted, duration, jot, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts
«Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.»
«The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Men and Women,
Passion
| Keywords:
duration, original, proportionate, resistance
«Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
an event, duration, eternal life, event, life eternal, temporal, timelessness
«Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.»
«By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
duration, in degree
«It is not strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
duration, great, makes, men, sentiments, strength
«In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w»
«The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Relationships,
Violence
| Keywords:
allay, allayed, allaying, animosities, calamities, duration