The value of one's life is determined by how much love one gives, not by how much love one has received. - Epictetus

"But to be hanged — is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I’m in difficulty, lord, and pitiable: no one cares about me, no one helps me; I’m the object of universal scorn.’ [49] Is that the witness you are going to bear, making a mockery of God’s summons, when he honoured you and judged you worthy to be his public spokesman?