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“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
Aristotle
“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”
Aristotle
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
Euripides
“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
Euripides
“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
Euripides
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”
Euripides
“No one is happy all his life long.”
Euripides
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
Stendhal
“Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.”
Stendhal
“Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.”
Stendhal
“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”
Honore de Balzac
“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”
Honore de Balzac
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Honore de Balzac
“If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.”
Honore de Balzac
“The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.”
Honore de Balzac
“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”
Honore de Balzac
“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
Honore de Balzac
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
Honore de Balzac
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
Aldous Huxley
“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
Aldous Huxley
“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
Aldous Huxley
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
Aldous Huxley
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
Aldous Huxley
“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
Aldous Huxley
“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”
Aldous Huxley
“While there's life, there's hope.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
