Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Armando Palacio Valdés

Armando Palacio Valdés

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When we are on the edge of an abyss and the night is dark, the wise rider loosens the reins and surrenders to the horse's instinct.

Armando Palacio Valdés

Armando Palacio Valdés

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Life has not been given to us to be happy, but to deserve to be so.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Destiny does not reign without the secret complicity of instinct and will.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Every man pays for his greatness with many smallnesses, his victory with many defeats, his wealth with multiple bankruptcies.

Paracelso

Paracelso

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Let it not be from another who can be master of oneself.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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If you do not act as you think, you will end up thinking as you act.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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I prefer to be wrong believing in a God who does not exist, than to be wrong not believing in a God who exists. Because if there is nothing afterwards, obviously I will never know it when I sink into eternal nothingness; but if there is something, if there is Someone, I will have to account for my attitude of rejection.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Our nature is in motion. Absolute rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Nature has perfections to show that it is an image of God, and imperfections to prove that it is only an image.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Morality is the science par excellence; it is the art of living well and being happy.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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I have made this letter longer than usual because I have no time to make it shorter.