Famous quotes containing the words ascetic and/or died:
“The ascetic makes a necessity out of virtue.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Here lies a man who was killed by lightning;
He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.
He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble,
But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.”
—Anonymous. From Booth, Epigrams Ancient and Modern (1863)