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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
Jack London White Fang · 1906

Quotes

“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Either/Or, 1843 · Primary source

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