Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Let us drink, dear friends, let us drink; fleeting time in vites us to it. Let us profit by life as much as we can.[Buvons, chers amis, buvons: Le temps qui fuit nous y convie ; Profitons de la vie Autant que nous pouvons.]
Let us be on our guard against saying that death is contrary to life. The living being is only a species of dead being, and a very rare species.
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.[Lassen Sie sich das Leben geschehen. Glauben Sie mir: das Leben hat recht, auf alle Fälle.]
It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
It’s so sad, everything is so sad — that we live all our lives like idiots and then finally die.
It will perhaps appear extraordinary that in speaking of marriage we have touched upon so many subjects; but marriage is not only the whole of human life, it is the whole of two human lives. Now just as the addition of a figure to the drawing of a lottery multiplies the chances a hundredfold, so one single life united to another life multiplies by a startling progression the risks of human life, which are in any case so manifold.
