Quotes
Quotes about Life
Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster.
While the sick man has life there is hope.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!"
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.
When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living."
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
