"The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears."

": It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live."

": The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death."

": Make haste to live, and consider each day a life."

"Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding."

": O life! long to the wretched, short to the happy."

"So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them."

"I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees."

"My life is like a stroll upon the beach."

"Sein Spruch war: leben und leben lassen."

": The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart."

": The part of life which we really live is short."

"Molestum est, semper vitam inchoare; male vivunt qui semper vivere incipiunt."

": To live is not a blessing, but to live well."

"Propra vivere et singulos dies singulas vitas puta."

"Quomodo fabula, sic vita: non quam diu, sed quam bene acta sit, refert."

": The hour which gives us life begins to take it away."

"Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life."

"O vita, misero longa! felici brevis!"

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"… The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf."

"Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star In God's eternal day."

"The white flower of a blameless life."

"Life is like a game of tables, the chances are not in our power, but the playing is."

"No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it."

": His saying was: live and let live."

"Vita, si scias uti, longa est."

"From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy."

"Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est."

": Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough."

"Exigua pars est vitæ quam nos vivimus."

"Si ad naturam vivas, nunquam eris pauper; si ad opinionem, numquam dives."

": If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich."

": Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly."

"Non vivere bonum est, sed bene vivere."

"Atqui vivere, militare est."

": But life is a warfare."

"Non domus hoc corpus sed hospitium et quidem breve."

": This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time."

": As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"Prima quæ vitam dedit hora, carpit."

"We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars."

"To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy."

"Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post jucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habebit humus."

"Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute (curo) ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori."