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 well requires both wisdom and courage."Descartes, René
"The world is a market; the righteous find their way home."Al-Ghazali
"The heart becomes hard through the pursuit of worldly desires."Al-Ghazali
"Life is a test; use your time to answer well."Al-Ghazali
"To live well is to live with purpose and understanding."Avicenna
"The purpose of life is the perfection of the soul."Avicenna
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."Hume, David
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters: pleasure and pain."Hume, David
"The purpose of life is the perfection of the soul."Averroes
"The balance between action and contemplation is the path to fulfillment."Averroes
"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."Maimonides
"To live is to act."Spinoza, Baruch
"Men are limited by their capacity for pleasure."Spinoza, Baruch
"To live well is to exercise one's power fully."Spinoza, Baruch
"Custom is the principal magistrate of man's life."Descartes, René
"To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act."Descartes, René
"We must learn to live, and I learn in the fire and the blood."Descartes, René
"The life unlived haunts the soul more than any actual failure could."Avicenna
"The soul grows through adversity, not ease."Al-Ghazali
"Whoever loves true life loves God."Augustine of Hippo
"The body ages, but the soul can remain young."Augustine of Hippo
"To live as a stranger and pilgrim in this world."Thomas Aquinas
"Active life is the delight of action; contemplative life is the delight of understanding."Thomas Aquinas
"Man is a unity of body and soul."Thomas Aquinas
"The soul is the form of the body."Thomas Aquinas
"Life's greatest gift is the capacity to understand and appreciate existence itself."Averroes
"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."Cicero
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."Cicero
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."Cicero
"We cannot live only for ourselves."Thomas Aquinas