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Existence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
More Existence Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle