James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Trouble with Man is Man", The New Yorker; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”
Sapiens vivit quantum debet, non quantum potest.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXX: On the proper time to slip the cable, Line 4.
“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”
Jonathan Swift book Les Voyages de Gulliver
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Variant: All would live long, but none would be old.
Source: Gulliver's Travels
“Man errs as long as he strives.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Faust
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
Variant translation: Man will err while yet he strives.
Prologue in Heaven
Faust, Part 1 (1808)
“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.”
Joseph Lewis (1889–1968) American activist
An Atheist Manifesto
“Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!”
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
Freedom and Death (1956)
Context: God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
“No man is powerful as long as power is his need.”
Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician
The Secret of Letting Go
“There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.”
Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Epistulae ad Atticum
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
Compare: "While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow
