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Life Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly…
- I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for…
- The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
- For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
- The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim…
- In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
- Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
- The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon…
- Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
- Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
- The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most…
- He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end…
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
- On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's…
- For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of…
- When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and…
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others…
- Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value…
- It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
- The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle