Coda

“Anything forced is not beautiful”
― Xenophon, The Art of Horsemanship

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo