purpose

"Life is long if you know how to use it."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"It is not that we have so little time but that we waste so much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested."

"First say to yourself what would you be; and then do what you have to do."

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: 'I have to go to work—as a human being.'"

"First say to yourself what would you be; and then do what you have to do."

"Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."

"You are an actor in a drama, which is as the author wants it to be."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live."

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: 'I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do?'"

"First say to yourself what would you be; and then do what you have to do."

"Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."