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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius““And so of all other things;—justice is useful when they are useless, and useless when they are useful?””
Republic • Plato“this second, violent world gushed out fragrantly everywhere, except in our rooms, where Mother and Father were. And that was very good. It was wonderful that here among us there was peace, order, and repose, duty and a clear conscience, forgiveness and love—and wonderful that all the rest existed, all those noisy, glaring, somber, and violent things, which nevertheless could be escaped with a single bound toward one’s mother.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“Variant translation: If I had to define man it would be: a biped, ungrateful.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski