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Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“[In the world below...] The wise and orderly soul is conscious of her situation, and follows in the path; but the soul which desires the body, and which... has long been fluttering about the lifeless frame and the world of sight, is after many struggles and many sufferings hardly and with violence carried away by her attendant genius, and when she arrives at the place where the other souls are gathered, if she be impure and have done impure deeds or have been concerned in foul murders or other crimes... from that soul everyone flees and turns away; no one will be her companion, no one her guide, but alone she wanders in extremity of evil until certain times are fulfilled...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.”
Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw“But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.”
Book VI • Marcus Aurelius“Where have they gone, the brilliant, the insightful ones, the proud? ”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius