
“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Source: The Black Obelisk
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Source: The Black Obelisk
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“The only two good things in life are doing mathematics and teaching it.”
La vie n'est bonne qu'à deux choses : à faire des mathématiques et à les professer.
quoted by François Arago in Notices biographiques, Volume 2 http://books.google.fr/books?pg=PA662&id=ZzNLAAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false, 1854, p. 662.