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“We must make the best use that we can of the things which are in our power, and use the rest according to their nature.”
Discourses • Epictetus“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
Once There Was a War • John Steinbeck“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens“It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the "truth" one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide