Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. – Epictetus

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we cant find. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is something great and terrible about suicide. – Honore de Balzac