Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?’
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
The universe is change; life is your perception of it.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
A Man’s life is dyed the color of his imagination.
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death–who knows?–may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
If he hold the slaves in his house, and they are caught there, he shall be put to death.
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
When he endures nothing but endless miseries– What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That’s all there is to be said.
And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin. Trying to grasp, we lose. Allow your life to unfold naturally. Know that it too is a vessel of perfection. Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
If a … or a … harm the property of a captain, injure the captain, or take away from the captain a gift presented to him by the king, then the … or … shall be put to death.
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
