The Good Book_ A Secular Bible - A. C. Grayling [212]
6. Gentle death is the ebb of care.
7. Death has many doors to let out life.
8. Death is only an incident in life.
9. Death makes high and low equal.
10. Death is the period of all pain.
11. Death opens the gate of fame and shuts the gate of envy.
12. Death takes no bribes.
13. Death will seize the doctor too.
14. Happy are they who die before they call for death.
15. Who fears death lives not.
16. They that once are born, once must die.
17. How sweet is death to those who weep.
18. It is as natural to die as to be born.
19. It is not death but dying which is terrible.
20. Peace, rest and sleep are all we know of death.
21. The dead are soon forgotten.
22. The dead have few friends.
23. The doors of death are always open.
24. To be content with death is better than to desire it.
25. To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.
26. We weep when we are born, not when we die.
27. Death pays all debts.
28. It is only the dead who do not return.
29. There is no dying by proxy.
30. To die quickly is a privilege.
31. All men are born richer than they die.
32. It is not death but a shameful death that is dreadful.
33. The whole earth is a sepulchre for the famous.
34. To die well is a chief part of virtue.
35. It takes four of the living to carry one dead from the house.
36. Death is rest from labour and misery.
37. Death is sometimes a gift.
38. Death overtakes all who flee.
39. They have gone to the majority.
40. It is uncertain where death awaits you, so expect it everywhere.
41. The fear of death is worse than death.
42. The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.
43. The earth rests lightly on those on whom life lay heavily.
44. There is a remedy for everything but death.
45. A good death is better than a bad life.
46. Death reveals truth.
47. The young might, the old must.
Chapter 47: Debt
1. Whoever is in debt lives in a net.
2. A pound of care pays not a penny of debt.
3. Better to bed supperless than to rise indebted.
4. Debt is the mother of folly and crime.
5. Who gets out of debt gets rich.
6. Industry pays debts, despair increases them.
7. Loans and debts make worries and frets.
8. Never spend money before you have it.
9. Out of debt, out of danger.
10. Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
11. It is an empty purse which is full of other people’s money.
12. Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
13. They are rich enough who owe nothing.
14. Debts turn the free into slaves.
15. A light debt makes a debtor, a heavy debt makes an enemy.
16. Debt and gratitude are different things.
17. Debt is grievous to an honourable person.
18. The sick sleep, but debtors lie awake.
19. You cannot pay debts with tears.
Chapter 48: Deceit
1. Deceit invites deceit.
2. They cry wine and sell vinegar.
3. If the world will be gulled, must it be gulled?
4. One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
5. The easiest person to deceive is oneself.
6. There is a twofold pleasure in deceiving the deceiving.
7. Distrust justifies deceit.
8. One might outwit another, but not all the others.
9. The surest way to invite deceit is to think oneself cleverer.
10. We are often deceived by what we love.
11. Who would not be deceived must have as many eyes as hairs on his head.
Chapter 49: Deeds
1. A deed well done pleases the heart.
2. Better not the deed than to weep it done.
3. Our deeds shape us as much as we them.
4. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
5. The reward for a good deed is the deed itself.
6. The shortest answer is doing.
7. We know better than we do.
8. We live in deeds, not years.
9. Living requires less life than doing.
10. A good person is silent about a good deed.
11. All are the children of their works.
Chapter 50: Delay
1. Delay is better than disaster.
2. Delay in revenge gives a heavier blow.
3. Delay is preferable to error.
4. Desire is nourished by delay.
5. We hate delay, yet it makes us wise.
6. We may delay, but time will not.
7. Every delay that postpones