Living and lifetime Quotes

Whether I was right or wrong at this time or that interests me no longer, since it all belongs to the past.

I desire only to witness the day of the great victory, then I shall be rewarded far beyond my merits.

Blood is upon us again, blood spilled for a perfidious king.

Time presses.

I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brother

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty

Freedom means responsibility; that is the reason why most people are afraid of it

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors

We rise in glory as we sink in pride

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?