David

“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“All things transient are but a parable.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two

“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child,cannot be true.”
― Thomas Paine