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“Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been. ”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip.”
The Man Who Laughs • VICTOR HUGO“After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
A Tramp Abroad • Mark Twain“To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind.”
Book V • Marcus Aurelius“This ordered universe, which is the same for all, was not created by any one of the gods or by man, but always was, is, and shall be, an ever-living Flame that is first kindled and then quenched in turn. [The universe bursts forth and then is reabsorbed, yet its Source is ever-living, like a Sun that never sets] and who can hide from that which never sets? [That eternal Intelligence in man] is forever beyond change;”
Fragments • Heraclitus