Advantage Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

— William Hazlitt

I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power…

— Jeaniene Frost

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

— Publilius Syrus

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear.…

— Arthur Koestler

“In the face of certain death, men will show great courage, make great sacrifices, show a selfless determination to complete an impossible task. But…

— Andreas Christensen

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

— Ernest Becker

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive…

— Michel de Montaigne

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

— James Shirley

Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

— Josh Billings