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Call no man happy before he dies.

Herodotus

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Herodotus
Greek - Historian
484 BC - 425 BC

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Solon

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Herodotus

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Account no man happy till he dies.

Euripides

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Ovid

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

Simone de Beauvoir

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

John Dryden

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Erich Fromm

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Michel de Montaigne

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Henry Fielding

When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin. -- Mr. Magorium

Suzanne Weyn

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

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