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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

Marcius Porcius Cato

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05

You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.

Unknown

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you.

Alan Alexander Milne

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government".

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune

We live as we dream - Alone.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Helle

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose