First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Discourses

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger, since it is not a man's power to provide for everything and escape from the general march of events; and that it is therefore better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second. War and Peace

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately. The Winter of Our Discontent

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. Never Give In!