Marcus Aurelius

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

The non-logic of fascism

Taylor Caldwell

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

Epictetus

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Lucian of Samosata

Dreams are great magicians.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Gaius Valerius Catullus

What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Euripides

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Ovid

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Marcus Aurelius

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: "I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?"