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Isidore of Seville

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Étudiez comme si vous deviez vivre toujours ; vivez comme si vous deviez mourir demain.




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Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.











Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.











Quotes for: to die


Quotes

Quotes for: to die


We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.





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





While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.





To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Philosophize is to learn how to die.











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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.





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.












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