Said

“Puisque le destin n’est que la succession des causes enchaînées l’une à l’autre, Dieu est la première de toutes les causes, d’où les autres découlent”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not, it will not be travelling but drifting. All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Fragments are the only forms I trust.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

“It is uncertain where Death will await you;
there expect it everywhere.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic