“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Motivation helps you start. Consistency is what carries you after that.”
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“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“Is a man unhappy because of exile? Then set before me one who is content in exile.”
Epicurus
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Pain does not last continuously in the flesh, but the acutest pain is there for a very short time.”
Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
Epicurus
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus
“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.”
Socrates · attributed
“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
Socrates · attributed
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
Socrates · attributed
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Socrates · attributed
