The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Enjoyment, Life
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Art, Life
To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler – Life
There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
Samuel Butler – Rules of life
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler – Life, Instinct
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler – Life, Learning
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler – Life, Science, Art
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler – Life is the art
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler – Joy, Life
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca – Life
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca – Life & thoughts
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
Seneca – to live nobly
Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil.
Seneca – Life is neither a good
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Seneca – Laughter, Life
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion
