The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. The Post Office Girl 

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed. Never Give In!

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. Crime And Punishment

If any man could arrive at the exterior limit, or take the wings of a bird and fly upward, like a fish who puts his head out and sees the world, he would see a world beyond; and, if the nature of man could sustain this sight, he would acknowledge that this was the place of the true heaven and the true light and the true stars. For this earth, and the stones, and the entire region which surrounds us, are spoilt and corroded... The Trials Of Socrates