βUntil we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.β
β Seneca
Remember how long you have been putting this off, how many times you have been given a period of grace by the gods and not used it. It is high time now for you to understand the universe of which you are a part, and the governor of that universe of whom you constitute an emanation: and that there is a limit circumscribed to your time β if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
βI have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βA person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.β
β John Stuart Mill