For politics, man is a means; for morality it is an end. The revolution of the future will be the triumph of morals over politics.
hollow shell the cicada sang all over
Matsuo Bashô
Why can't men talk about a thing without immediately declaring: 'This is foolish, that is reasonable, that other is good, that is bad'? What are these words worth...
Johann Goethe
What has no value is not lost; abandon.
Dona Geo
Every trial can be a training for virtue. - Stoicism
Stoic Thoughts
Purification through suffering is less painful than the situation that is created for a guilty person by a thoughtless acquittal.
Fyodor Dostoevsky