John Ervin

“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”
― Euripides, Trojan Women

“Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.”
― Lactantius, The Works Of Lactantius V1

“Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.”
― Keats John

“Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead?”
― Juvenal