The past is never dead. It's not even past.

"The biggest victories come after the toughest battles."

"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."

Concerning the gods, I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.