Written laws are like spiders webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. – Anacharsis
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory. – Miguel de Unamuno