Quote of Isidore of Seville - Live as if you were...

Biography - Isidore of Seville:

Born: 560 - Died: 636
Period:
7th century
6th century
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

Quote

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Isidore of Seville

Translation

(French)

Étudiez comme si vous deviez vivre toujours ; vivez comme si vous deviez mourir demain."
Isidore de Séville

Quotes for: to learn:

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
Leonardo da Vinci

From one, learn all."
Publius Vergilius Maro - Aeneid

to learn

Philosophize is to learn how to die."
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Learning to love is why we are here."
Abbé Pierre

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

All for: to learn

Quotes for: to live:

To live means to love, but above all, to love life."
Blanche Pierson

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.""
Hans Christian Andersen

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
Leonardo da Vinci

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die."
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live."
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

All for: to live

Quotes for: to die:

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."
Jean de La Bruyere

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
Leonardo da Vinci

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die."
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live."
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Philosophize is to learn how to die."
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

All for: to die

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Quote of Isidore of Seville - Live as if you were...

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