It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.