Justin Labelle

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets us fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet. This explains many things, and among them the fact that everyone measures us with his own standard—generally about as long as a tailor's tape, and we have to put up with it: as also that no one will allow us to be taller than himself—a supposition which is once for all taken for granted.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“to conclude the matter, what is even an eternal remembrance? A mere nothing. What then is that about which we ought to employ our serious pains? This one thing, thoughts just, and acts social, and words which never lie, and a disposition which gladly accepts all that happens, as necessary, as usual, as flowing from a principle and source of the same kind.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“on every occasion a man should ask himself, Is this one of the unnecessary things?”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius