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A Life (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be cut in two, the first individual dying when the books appear and the second being born.

Life (n.) while ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠you are alive is the rule: suffer, die, or get better, but live while you are alive.

Life (n.) here ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is only half-life: my vices tell me the life of the soul begins with the death of the body.

Life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the trade I would teach him: when he leaves me he will be neither magistrate, soldier nor priest — he will be a man.

Life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠called short by people doing their best to shorten it: they complain time flies, yet would pay to be rid of every hour between themselves and the desired moment.

Life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never too short for one who does not wish time away: for him life and the joy of life are one, and dying young he would still die full of days.

Life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not breath but action; it consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living — a man may be buried at a hundred who never lived at all.

Life (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠pass unlived for a man to whom to live was to love: at forty-five he had never once loved a determinate object, and felt himself hastening to death without having lived.

Life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠short not because of how little time it lasts but because we are allowed scarcely any of it to enjoy: at first we don't know how to live, and when we know, it is too late.

Life (n.) for ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the citizen is no longer a bounty of nature but a gift made conditionally by the State: when the prince says it is expedient that you should die, he ought to die.

Life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠priced higher as it loses value: the old regret it more than the young, since they do not want to lose all they spent preparing to enjoy it — at sixty it is cruel to die before one has begun to live.