Death
This time Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi fled to Liaodong, where they planned to take shelter from the administrator Gongsun Kang. However, they were betrayed by Gongsun, who executed them to appease Cao Cao.
Read more about this topic: Yuan Shang, Biography
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
“What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.”
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“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
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