Life Quotes

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

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"A man may love beast as a companion, but something has gone very wrong if beast becomes the purpose of a man's life."
Aristophanes
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"A man's true character emerges when no one is watching and there is nothing to gain."
Aristophanes
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"In the theater of life, every man is both actor and audience, judge and judged."
Aristophanes
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"In the end, it is not what we have done that matters, but what we have meant to do."
Aristophanes
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"The richness of life lies in the variety of human experiences."
Euripides
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"To live is to risk everything."
Euripides
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"In the apeiron lies both destruction and creation in perpetual dance."
Anaximander
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"The universe breathes, and in each breath is contained all that ever was."
Anaximander
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"To breathe is to participate in the ancient dance of the boundless."
Anaximander
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"To be is to change; to change is to participate in the infinite."
Anaximander
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"Man must either live well or make a good end."
Democritus
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"Fortune is not generous with her favors."
Democritus
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"Misfortune springs from the same source as happiness."
Democritus
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"Life is a battle and a journey."
Democritus
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"The breath connects us to all living things in an eternal cycle."
Anaximenes
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"Life is the dance between opposites"
Empedocles
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"We are what we repeatedly do"
Empedocles
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"Life has a way of making the important seem trivial and the trivial important."
Euripides
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"To live is to struggle, but struggle gives life meaning."
Euripides
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"Life is not a destination but an eternal process of mixing and separation."
Empedocles
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"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."
Aristophanes
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"The man who has made up his mind that life is worth living is beaten at the start."
Aristophanes
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"Life is just a series of disappointments with occasional intervals of hope."
Frankie Boyle
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"I think my life would make a brilliant film, if only someone else had lived it."
Frankie Boyle
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Frankie Boyle
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"To be alive is to participate in the eternal transformation of the apeiron."
Anaximander
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"Being has no beginning and will have no end."
Parmenides
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"Being is spherical, complete, and perfect in itself."
Parmenides
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"In the heart of Being, there is no room for death or decay."
Parmenides
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"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."
Euripides