Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
SocratesThe highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
Socrates[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Socrates