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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow:
Gather today the roses of life.

Pierre de Ronsard - Sonnets pour Hélène / 






It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals / 






A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 






In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan / 






Art is long, life is short.
Hippocrates / 






Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
Alfred de Musset - À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles / 



Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

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






The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Émile Maximilien Paul Littré / 






Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 






Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde / 



Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 






The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler / 






He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant / 






If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 






Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin / 






One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll / 






Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius / 






As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus / 






Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci / 






Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols / 






... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science / 






The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.
Ludwig Wittgenstein / 






While we wait for life, life passes.
Seneca / 






It requires management to enjoy life.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.
André Breton  / 










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