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Quotation from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
“If you wish life, prepare for death”
Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', final line, trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918)
Freud's paraphrase of the Latin proverb 'Si vis pacem, para bellum' ('If you wish peace, prepare for war'), giving the essay its closing maxim, 'Si vis vitam, para mortem'.
Citation: "If you wish life, prepare for death" — Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', final line, trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918). (id freud-reflections-on-war-and-death-q10)
