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“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately steppint into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Discourses • Epictetus“Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain.”
The Antichrist • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide“I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.”
Gorgias • Plato