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““The prospect of those visiting hours, for which the starvation artist naturally yearned, since they were the meaning of his life, also made him shudder.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville“To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference. ”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“I am quite ready, Simmias and Cebes, that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind; and therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead, and, as has been said of old, some far better thing for the good than for the evil.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.”
Fragment • Epictetus