“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we
need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we
lack at birth, all that we need when we come to
man’s estate, is the gift of education.”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”
- Bishop Hall

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”
- Robert Frost

“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.”
- Robert Bolt

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
- Buddha