Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is read more

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or read more

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates read more

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves read more

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.