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“...do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils? ...Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“The body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and is also liable to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after truth: and by filling us so full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies, and idols, and every sort of folly, prevents our ever having, as people say, so much as a thought.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them.”
Fragment • Epictetus“Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.”
Ulysses • James Joyce“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius