To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.