The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.