Bradyn

“Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to
suspect that it is merely a dream, and wants to go on
dreaming rather than waking up, so I am content to
slide back into my old opinions; I fear being shaken out
of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may
be followed by hard labour when I wake, and that I
shall have to struggle not in the light but in the
imprisoning darkness of the problems I have raised.”
― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies

“For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know: no one knows whether death does not even happen to be the greatest of all goods for the human being; but people fear it as though they knew well that it is the greatest of evils.”
― Plato, Apology

“Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature. And what is its nature? However God decides.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, and here I am. I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”
― Alexandre Dumas