"When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men, too: even if they don’t want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined." —Zeno

"As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is." —Seneca

"Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent." —Dionysius

"A humble art affords us daily bread." —Nero

"The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future." —Epicurus