Famous quotes containing the word perish:
“As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness—there can be no doubt of that—morality will gradually perish now: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe—the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of all spectacles.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“May they perish who said what we said before we did.”
—Jerome (c. 340–420)
“We shall perish by guile just as we slew.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)