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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.”
John F. Kennedy · Address to the nation, 1962
“These are the times that try men's souls.”
Thomas Paine · The American Crisis, 1776
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”
John Adams · Letter to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 45
“Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
Seneca · Attributed, moral essays
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.”
Seneca · Moral essays
“Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 7
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth!”
Friedrich Nietzsche · The Gay Science, 1882
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
Rick Blaine · Casablanca, 1942
“You talkin' to me?”
Travis Bickle · Taxi Driver, 1976
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
Michael Corleone · The Godfather Part III, 1990
