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.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
