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.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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.
In married life three is company and two none.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
