To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference. Book VIII

It may be said, indeed, that without bones and muscles and the other parts of the body I cannot execute my purposes. But to say that I do as I do because of them, and that this is the way in which the mind acts, and not from the choice of the best, is a very careless and idle mode of speaking. I wonder that they cannot distinguish the cause from the condition, which the many, feeling about in the dark, are always mistaking and misnaming. The Trials Of Socrates

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. The Grapes of Wrath