Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. Gorgias

And this, Cebes, is the reason why the true lovers of knowledge are temperate and brave; and not for the reason that the world gives. For not in that way does the soul of a philosopher reason. ...Never fear, Simmias and Cebes, that a soul which has been thus nurtured and has had these pursuits, will at her departure from the body be scattered and blown away by the winds and be nowhere and nothing. The Trials Of Socrates

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept 

“Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam