Famous quotes containing the words ascetic and/or died:
“The ascetic makes a necessity out of virtue.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I’ll defy them to do it. They have n’t got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)