Gabrielle

“Benign Philosophy, by degrees, strips from us most of our vices, and all our mistakes; it is she that first teaches us the right.”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”
― Plutarch

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello