Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
George SantayanaFacts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
George SantayanaTyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana