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- While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Words have a longer life than deeds.
- Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), Nemean Odes
- One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- No man loves life like him that's growing old.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Acrisius
- There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Apology
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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