This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.
Francois FenelonThere were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.
Francois Fenelon