"Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ..."
- Seneca
"distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)"
"I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goe..."
- Charlotte Eriksson
"We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole"
"Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same ti..."
"...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly."
"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
"All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within."