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“For these other matters all this mourning is empty and pointless. It is just so with anything that is past: it is not feasible to grasp it again and restore it, and it is not allowed even for the gods to take it in hand.”
― Justus Lipsius, Justus Lipsius: On Constancy

“Why should God indulge us to the point of ruin, since we are truly children, who lack the knowledge to ask for what is wholesome or cast aside what is harmful?”
― Justus Lipsius, Justus Lipsius: On Constancy

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
― Milan Kundera

“In all the world there is nothing so curious and so interesting and so beautiful as truth.”
― Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy