Spreuken over Dood

To fear the inevitable is to be ignorant.

The detectives are treating this incident as a death investigation as there are no clear indicators of a homicide.

To bedward be you merry or have merry company about you, so that to bedward no anger nor heaviness, sorrow nor pensifulness do trouble or disquiet you.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing

He did of course sometimes have people horribly tortured to death, but this was considered to be perfectly acceptable behaviour for a civic ruler and generally approved of by the overhelming majority of citizens. [footnote: The overhelming majority of citizens being defined in this case as everyone not currently hanging upside down over a scorpion pit]