Dewey Decimal Depressive

“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
― Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich the Great (Vol.1-21): History of Friedrich II of Prussia

“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
― Herodotus