“The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.”
Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
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“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays”
Michel de Montaigne
“Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.”
Victor Hugo
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.”
Groucho Marx
“To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.”
John Henry Newman