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William Shakespeare:He lives in fame that died


He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
by William Shakespeare


William Temple:Man alone is born crying, lives


Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
by William Temple


James Thurber:Nowadays men lead lives of noisy


Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
by James Thurber


Pierre Corneille:Love lives on hope, and dies


Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
by Pierre Corneille


William Dement:Dreaming permits each and every


Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
by William Dement


Annie Dillard:How we spend our days is, of


How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
by Annie Dillard


Kabbalah:A mortal lives not through that breath


A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
by Kabbalah


Marcel Marceau:Do not the most moving moments of


Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
by Marcel Marceau


Pierre Reverdy:One lives with so many bad deeds


One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
by Pierre Reverdy


Baruch Spinoza:He alone is free who lives with


He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
by Baruch Spinoza


St. Augustine:Indeed, man wishes to be happy


Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
by St. Augustine


Robert Louis Stevenson:Man is a creature who


Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords
by Robert Louis Stevenson


Terence:I bid him look into the lives of men as


I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.
by Terence


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:Life belongs to the


Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Lord Byron:I have great hopes that we shall love


I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
by Lord Byron


William Blake:He who binds to himself a joy Does


He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise.
by William Blake


The Dhammapada:Although a man may wear fine


Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man...
by The Dhammapada


Bertrand Russell:Love is something far more than


Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
by Bertrand Russell


Samuel Johnson:Avarice is generally the last


Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
by Samuel Johnson


Frederick Nietzsche:What else is love but


What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do and crosswise to our purposes? For love to bridge these opposites through joy it must not eliminate or deny them.—Even self-love presupposes an irreconcilable duality (or multiplicity) in a single person.
by Frederick Nietzsche


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