The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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The really important thing is not live, but to live well.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.
Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better only god knows.