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“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
Stephen Hawking
“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”
Stephen Hawking
“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”
Horace
“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
Horace
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Horace
“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.”
Horace
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
Horace
“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”
Horace
“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”
Horace
“We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.”
Horace
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
Plato
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
Plato
“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
Plato
“Life must be lived as play.”
Plato
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
Plato
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
Plato
“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
Plato
“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”
Plato
“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”
Plato
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
Coco Chanel
“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Karl Marx
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
Aristotle
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
Aristotle
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
Aristotle
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
Aristotle
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Aristotle
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
Aristotle
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
Aristotle
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”
Aristotle
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
Aristotle
