"Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure."
- Epicurus
"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires."
"It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ..."
- Walter Pater
"Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason."
"Death means nothing to us"
"For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself."
- Francis Bacon
"Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands."
- Frances Wright