The unexamined life is not worth living.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
A useless life is an early death.
