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- The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
- Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- An exile's life is no life.
- Leonidas of Tarentum (290 BC - 220 BC), from The Greek Anthology, 1973, Peter Jay
- History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
- We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
- Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Very little is needed to make a happy life.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
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