Related:

• The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it. -- Moliere
• You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide,.
  .. a hog from Epicurus's herd. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Satires, 4, 15...
• A good reputation is more valuable than money. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 108
• What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain.
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act v, Sc. 3, 30, (816.)...
• On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Assail the stern rock
  and the loud tempests rave, The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows, Like fond weeping mourners, lean over his grave....
• A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
  .. -- Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)...
• You will generally find that everything is defiled with usurious contrac
  hat those very persons have got together the greater part of their money by sheer rapine, who nevertheless assert themselves so confidently to be pure from all contagion of unjust gain....
• The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so canno
  or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing....
• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
  -- Samuel Johnso...