Laerra

“Look at us! For us there are no partings, no pains, no sufferings; or if they come they are turned into pleasure. And death itself, which for you is the end of life, is for us merely its beginning,—the exchange of a lower for a higher happiness, a happiness less calm for one calmer and eternal.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Whoso does not play at dice will not lose property, but still people play at dice. There is in that a certain delight and destruction of the present.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis: A Story of St. Peter in Rome in the Reign of Emperor Nero