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“Every flatterer lives at the expense of those who listen to him.”
Fontaine
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“Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?”
Aeschylus
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“The unexamined life is not worth living. ”
Socrates
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“Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
Aurelius Marcus
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“ Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, experience misleading the judgment difficult. ”
Hippocrates
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“The world is a theater, life is a drama: You come, see and leave.”
Democritus
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“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
Shaw Bernard
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“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Seneca
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“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Fromm Erich
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. ”
Sandburg Carl
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“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.”
Schopenhauer Counsels and Maxims
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“To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. ”
Masters Edgar
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“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ”
Pollock Jackson
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“God's only excuse is that he does not exist.”
Stendhal
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“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
Menander
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“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry”
Kerouac Jack
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“Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
Asimov Isaac
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“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.””
Hikmet Nazim
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“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”
Reich Wilhelm
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
Eliot Thomas
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“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. - Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. ”
Lawrence
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“It is your duty in life to save your dream.”
Modigliani
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“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
Gibran Khalil
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“I haven't understood a single piece of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
Stravinsky Igor
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
London Jack
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“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. ”
Rimbaud