Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"We are each a reflection of the cosmos we study."
Niccolò Copernicus
"Life is a gift meant to be lived with purpose and gratitude."
Thomas More
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"The condition of life is to be subject to changes."
Michel de Montaigne
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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The world bores me; I'm beginning to fade away from the world."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The art of living is to die young but as late as possible."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them."
Michel de Montaigne
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Better to die young than to fade away unloved."
Diogenes Laërtius
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Life is an error unless you know what you are living for."
Hypatia
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"To live is to embrace both joy and suffering with equal grace."
Hypatia
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"Life is the continuous process of becoming who you are meant to be."
Hypatia
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"The body is a prison from which the soul seeks escape."
Porphyry
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"The material world cannot satisfy the immortal soul."
Porphyry
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"The body is but a garment for the eternal soul."
Porphyry
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"The soul is the bridge between the eternal and temporal."
Porphyry
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"In geography, as in life, position is everything."
Strabo
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"The greatest discovery is understanding oneself."
Strabo
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"We are not given a good life. We are given a life. It is up to us to make it good."
Petronius
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"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain."
Petronius
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"He who has not tasted the bitter, knows not what is sweet."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Life is a game; play it."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Character is destiny."
Plutarch
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"The mind is everything; what we think we become."
Plutarch
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"It is better to live a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way."
Plutarch
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"The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death."
Plutarch
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"Every man bears the whole stamped image of human condition."
Michel de Montaigne
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"We are not so much afraid of dying as of not having lived."
Michel de Montaigne