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“So be it, cuckoo!
Let us, you and I, compare
the flow of our tears,
for I, too, in this sad world
do little but lift my cry.”
― Anonymous, The Tale of the Heike

“We don't practise generosity in order to secure gratitude, nor do we invest our gifts in the hope of a favourable return. Rather, it is nature that inclines us towards generosity. Just so, we don't seek friendship with an expectation of gain, but regard the feeling of love as its own reward.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On the Good Life

“The vast majority of them weren't guilty of anything. They were too passive and too ignorant. Their slavery was the result of passivity and ignorance, and passivity and ignorance again and again breeds slavery.”
― Boris Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God

“Shortly before death he was asked what his wishes were regarding funeral arrangements.
"Don't trouble yourself, the stench will ensure that I get buried."
"But", the other objected, "isn't it wrong that the body of a great man should be exposed as food for birds and dogs?"
"On the contrary, " he said, "it's the part of a great man, even in death, to be of service to the living.”
― Robert F. Dobbin, The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian