“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death.”
“Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.”
“Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.”
“Death makes cynics of us all”
“Death Makes Angels of us all.”