Sein Spruch war: leben und leben lassen.
His saying was: live and let live.
From a boy
I gloated on existence. Earth to me
Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there
One trembling opportunity for joy.
Alan Seeger—Sonnet. I Loved.
Tota vita nihil alhuTquam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey
to death.
Seneca—Consol. ad Polybium. 29.
Vita, si scias uti, longa est.
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long
enough.
Seneca—De Brevitate Vitoe. II.
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| text = Exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus.
The part of life which we really live is short.
Seneca—De Brevitate Vitoe. II.
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.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. XVI.
Molestum est, semper vitam inchoare; male
vivunt qui semper vivere incipiunt.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin
to live.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. XXIII.
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in
senectute (euro) ut bene moriar; bene autem
mori est libenter mori.
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.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. LXI.
Non vivere bonum est, sed bene vivere.
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. LXX.
Atqui vivere, militare est.
But life is a warfare.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lvdlium. XCVI.
Propra vivere et singulos dies singulas vitas puta.
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. CI.
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.
Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lucilium. CXX.
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LIFE
Quomodo fabula, sic vita: non quam diu, sed
quam bene acta sit, refert.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but
how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca—Epistles. LXXXVII.
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| text = <poem>Prima quae vitam dedit hora, carpit.
The hour which gives us life begins to
take it away.
Seneca—Hercules Furens. VIII. 74.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act IV. Sc. 3. L.80. </poem>
excellent! I love long life better than figs.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 32.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 15.
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 23.
LastphrasemTheTamingofiheShrew. Act
IV. Sc. 1; Othello. Act III. Sc. 1. The
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 4.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. Rabelais.
Bk.V. Ch.IV.
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| text = <poem>Why, what should be the fear?
do not set my life at a pin's fee.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 66.
And a man's life's no more than to say "One."
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 74.
gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 82.
Let life be short; else shame will be too long.
The sands are number'd that make up my life;
Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 25
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Julius Caesar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 93.
This day I breathed first: tune is come round,
And where I did begin there shall I end;
My life is run his compass.
Julius Caesar. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 23.
