#life

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. ↗

#life #life is too short #matters #short #span

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life. ↗

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. ↗

— John James Audubon

#again #although #america #beloved #bodies

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#animal #animal life #avoiding #beasts #bodily

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#finding #insane #life #majority #object

Do every act of your life as if it were your last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #give #last #life #relief

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ↗