Nhu Nguyen

“Indeed, pursuing pleasure, Seneca warns, is like pursuing a wild beast: On being captured, it can turn on us and tear us to pieces. Or, changing the metaphor a bit, he tells us that intense pleasures, when captured by us, become our captors, meaning that the more pleasures a man captures, “the more masters will he have to serve.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer