Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Speak me fair in death.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that your memories should be personal.

Always go to other people's funerals otherwise they won't come to yours.