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

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 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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:

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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

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

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

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

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...

Isidore of Seville also said...

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.”
Isidore of Seville

Without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.”
Isidore of Seville

music

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