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“Life is better lived than conceptualized.”
This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I've come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 45
“It is better to suffer, than to do, wrong.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555), p. 164
“Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.”
Fragment 854.
Phædra
“There is nothing more regenerating than music.”
Philippine Free Press. Manila. April 28, 1928.
ULOL
“It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful”
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
“It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.”
Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que de l'être pour soi-même.
Maxim 132.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“There is no gift more great than love.”
Morvyth, in Book Two : The Mathematics of Gonfal, Ch. X : Relative to Gonfal's Head
The Silver Stallion (1926)
“Mercy is of greater value than justice.”
La clémence vaut mieux que la justice.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
“The infinite of the soul is mightier than the finite in it.”
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.373
“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
Actually by Bill Nye, possibly confused due to Nye quoting Twain in More Tramps Abroad, 1897. (See also autobiography, vol. 1, p. 288.)
Misattributed
“Equity will go no further than the law.”
Tooke v. Hollingworth (1793), 5 T. R. 225.
“Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.”
“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
Reply to questionnaire, "The Cost of Letters" in Horizon (September 1946).
General sources
“You can't do better than that.”
On being hugged by Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's visit to Detroit in 1987
Dolon, John (July 2007), "The White Stripes: New Jack City" http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2705 Blender Volume unknown: pp. 109
2010
“A good name is better than riches.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.