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- A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be. - Benjamin Johnson
- Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! Not in vain
By day or star-light thus from by first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul,
Not with the mean and vulgar works of man,
But with high objects, with enduring things,
With life and nature, purifying thus
The elements of feeling and of thought,
And sanctifying, by such discipline
Both pain and fear, until we recognize
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.
- Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
- What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
- Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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