“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth”
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“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth”
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”
“You must, therefore, live with your enemies, as you cannot always live with your friends”
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough”
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Life is too short to be small”
“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations”
“The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive”
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in”
“We make war that we may live in peace”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves”
“Without music, life would be a mistake”
“We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.”
“I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life ”
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ”
“It is better to create than to learn. Creating is the essence of life”