While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.', Seneca', Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.', Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.',

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.', Sir Francis Bacon, Of Death', English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.', Sallust', Roman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC)

Elegance is refusal.', Coco Chanel', French fashion designer & perfumer (1883 - 1971)