David

“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”
― Diogenes Laërtius