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“Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.”
Sophocles
“Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.”
Sophocles
“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”
Sophocles
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
Victor Hugo
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
Victor Hugo
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
Victor Hugo
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
Victor Hugo
“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
Victor Hugo
“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
Victor Hugo
“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
Victor Hugo
“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
Victor Hugo
“One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'”
Victor Hugo
“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.”
Franz Kafka
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”
Franz Kafka
“We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.”
Franz Kafka
“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.”
Franz Kafka
“If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.”
Franz Kafka
“The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.”
Franz Kafka
“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”
Franz Kafka
“Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.”
Franz Kafka
“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”
Franz Kafka
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
Willie Nelson
“Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.”
Fridtjof Nansen
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Ignorance is always afraid of change.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
