Sherkoh Mazari

“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of us - was the great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic