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“If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius““let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.””
Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca's Morals • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“[One of the company... said: ...is not this the direct contrary of what we admitted before—that out of the greater came the less and out of the less the greater, and that opposites are simply generated from opposites; whereas now this seems to be utterly denied.] ...then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now of the essential opposite which, as is affirmed, neither in us nor in nature can ever be at variance with itself... these essetial opposites will never, as we maintain, admit of generation into or out of one another.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
Ecce Homo • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche