Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be what we are and to become what we are capable of being is the only purpose of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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All human beings are made up of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Our purpose in life is not to achieve success, but to continue failing with high spirits.

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

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Life is a game of terrible odds; if it were a bet, you wouldn't get involved in it.

Johann August Strindberg

Johann August Strindberg

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When you're twenty, you think you've solved the enigma of the world; at thirty, you reflect on it, and at forty, you discover that it's insoluble.

Johann August Strindberg

Johann August Strindberg

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One cannot have any other task in life than to preserve it until death.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Arbitrary power constitutes a natural temptation for a prince, like wine or women for a young man, or bribery for a judge, or greed for the old, or vanity for a woman.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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For those who aspire to power, there is no middle ground between the summit and the precipice.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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Power obtained by wrongful means was never exercised for good purposes.