“[T]hose who know the least, obey the best.”
George Farquhar The Recruiting Officer
The Recruiting Officer (1706), Act iv. Sc. 1.
“[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.”
The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10 <br class="br">Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.) <br class="br">Referenced
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Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725–1798Related quotes
“[T]hey who do not love [life] do not deserve it.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 35
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Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
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“He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.”
Pierre Corneille book Le Cid
Qui peut vivre infâme est indigne du jour.
Don Diègue, act I, scene v.
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Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
“[T]here are women who are for all your "times of life."”
Henry James book The Ambassadors
They're the most wonderful sort.
Book V, ch. III.
The Ambassadors (1903)
“[T]o anyone who weeps, life has some importance.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity
