Latin
Memento Mori - Remember your death
Amor Fati - Love of fate
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi - Thus passes the glory of the world
Biblical
Mark 8:36 "What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?"
Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves."
Colossians 2:23 "Whatever work you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men"
1 Thessalonians 4:11 "and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you"
Ecclesiastes 1:18 "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow"
Quotes
"Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun." - Seneca
"We shall go into the pyre, we shall burn, but we shall not retreat from our convictions." - Vavilov
"The way you pay for your privileges is with your virtues." - JB Peterson
"The best is the enemy of the good." - Voltaire
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but becuase they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G. K. Chesterton
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." - Dostoyevsky
"My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity -, but to love it..." - Nietzsche
Poetry
If - Rudyard Kipling
True Believer - Jack Carr
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