What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Mind, Punishment, Time, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Doors, Jail, Science, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Persons, Wish, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation. Feraz Zeid, June 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Force, Police, Protection, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Infidelity, religious, Tolerance, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Destiny, Failure, Tyrants, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Distance, Poor, Rich, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Death, Dying, religious, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Death is the next step after the pension-it’s perpetual retirement without pay. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France