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““Is there anything surprising in one who passes from divine contemplations to the evil state of man, misbehaving himself in a ridiculous manner; if, while his eyes are blinking and before he has become accustomed to the surrounding darkness, he is compelled to fight in courts of law, or in other places, about the images or the shadows of images of justice, and is endeavouring to meet the conceptions of those who have never yet seen absolute justice?””
Republic • Plato“Let an understanding man imagine human nature originally produced without the sense of sight, and consider what ignorance and trouble such a defect would bring upon him, what a darkness and blindness in the soul; he will then see by that of how great importance to the knowledge of truth would be the privation of such another sense, or of two or three, should we be so deprived.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius“We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.”
Fragment • Epictetus“In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; “I am rising to a man’s work.””
Meditations • Marcus Aurelius