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