Life Quotes

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

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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."
Hadrian
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Nero
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Nero
"All the world's a stage."
Nero
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Titus
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"Life is long if you know how to use it."
Titus
T
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Titus
T
"Life is not about how fast you run, it's about the journey you take."
Titus
T
"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."
Titus
T
"All want to live long, but no one wants to be called old."
Titus
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"To live without challenge is to live without purpose."
Antoninus Pius
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"The pursuit of perfection leads only to the perfection of one's flaws."
Domitian
D
"The empire that eats itself grows no larger."
Domitian
C
"Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth."
Claudius
"The pursuit of pleasure without purpose leads only to emptiness and regret."
Vespasian
"A life without purpose is a life without direction, and direction without purpose is mere wandering."
Vespasian
"The gods envy us because we are mortal."
Caligula
"Life is too short to be spent on the opinions of mediocre minds."
Nero
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"In the arena of life, we are all both gladiator and spectator."
Domitian
D
"To live fully is to accept that death may come at any moment."
Domitian
D
"In the amphitheater of fate, we are all gladiators."
Domitian
"I would rather have one day of life than a thousand days of mere existence."
Tiberius
C
"The gods give us our faces, but we make our own expressions."
Claudius
C
"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."
Claudius
C
"The purpose of life is not merely to exist, but to exist with purpose."
Claudius
C
"A life without passion is a life half-lived."
Claudius
"Life is but a game of thrones, and I play to win."
Caligula
"Pleasure is the only truth worthy of pursuit."
Caligula
"The world exists as my personal theater of ambition."
Caligula
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"Legacy is not what we take, but what we leave behind."
Titus