"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
- Cicero
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
- Cicero
"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."
- Evelyn Waugh
"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
- Evelyn Waugh
"I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."
- Evelyn Waugh
"If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper..."
- Evelyn Waugh
"Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?"
- Evelyn Waugh
"No one is ever holy without suffering."
- Evelyn Waugh
"I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.'
I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue."
- Evelyn Waugh
"The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!"
- Evelyn Waugh
"But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea? But I do. That's how I believe."
- Evelyn Waugh
"The largest fragilizer of society, and greatest generator of crises, absence of “skin in the game."
- Luca Dellanna
"Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity"
- Luca Dellanna
"Stressors are information"
- Luca Dellanna
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
- Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."