It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted. - Mary Renault

I stretched my hand palm downward over the earth. “Earth-Shaker, Father of Bulls, you know us all. We are your children, your little calves who danced for you. You have heard our feet, you have tasted our blood in the dusty sand. We have taken the bull by the horns; we have leaped for you and not run away; we always gave you a show. Wrong has been done here, but we did not do it. We have lived in your hand. Hold us up now, when we have need.

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

- Herakles