David

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Seneca