Life Quotes

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

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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, when we fail to sing, to laugh, to dance, to play."
Horace
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"Life is short, make it sweet with laughter and good company."
Martial
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."
Martial
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"Life's richness lies in its uncertainties, not its certainties."
Martial
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"Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be."
Livy
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Livy
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Livy
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live."
Livy
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Livy
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
Pliny the Younger
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it."
Pliny the Younger
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"In the details of daily life, we find the true substance of existence."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"To face one's mortality is to begin to truly live."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"The pursuit of pleasure is not the purpose of existence."
Suetonius
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Martial
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"Life's greatest lessons come from life's greatest struggles."
Martial
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"Life is long if you know how to use it."
Pliny the Elder
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"Nowhere is it written that life should be easy."
Pliny the Elder
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
Horace
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Horace
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
Horace
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"Relinquish your attempts at immortality and achieve a better thing—to live well."
Horace
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"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it is about learning to dance in the rain."
Pliny the Younger
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"Life is too short for petty grievances; choose love instead."
Pliny the Younger
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"The greatest tragedy is not death, but a life unlived."
Suetonius
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"The pursuit of pleasure often leads to the discovery of pain."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"In the end, we are measured by how well we have lived with ourselves."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"The human condition is defined not by our circumstances, but by our response to them."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"In the records of an upright life, small things are as important as great."
Tacitus
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"The pursuit of pleasure often leads to the loss of all pleasure."
Tacitus