Abandoned Quote by Horace

“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim to pursue…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

— Jean Ingelow

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude…

— Juvenal

“Vive ut vivast - Live so that you may live.”

— Melissa L. Delgado

“Overcome us that, so overcome, we may be ourselves: we desire the beginning of your reign as we desire dawn and dew, wetness at…

— C.S. Lewis

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy…

— Garth Stein

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]

— Pope Gregory VII

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death...to separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all…

— Anonymous

“We passionately long for there to be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do…

— Marcel Proust

“We become attached to each pleasant thought, feeling, taste, smell, and sound. But because everything is impermanent, we’re craving and clinging to fleeting experiences.…

— Noah Levine

“Oh, there are plenty of people," the Duc used to observe, "who never misbehave save when passion spurs them to ill; later, the fire…

— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus