“For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.” Republic

People who feel entitled view every occurrence in their life as either an affirmation of, or a threat to, their own greatness. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck

That time does not run backward, that is its wrath; "That which was"--that is the name of the stone it cannot roll. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power. History as a System