Live and let live

1. We should live the life we choose and allow others to do the same.

Idioms and Phrases

Show tolerance for those different from yourself. For example, I'm not going to tell my sister what to do—live and let live, I say . [First half of 1600s]

Example Sentences

It is easy to say, as has been said, that the essential trait of the scientific life of to-day is its live-and-let-live character.

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Instead of crying, "Pereant qui ante nos nostra cantaverunt," he believes in a live-and-let-live policy.

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I fancy the elephants would have been gentler masters than we: more live-and-let-live in allowing other species to stay here.

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Moreover, he was an essentially peaceful person, a live-and-let-live man.

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Men are in this matter more tolerant, more live-and-let-live in their ways.

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