Bach on his deathbed: “Don’t cry for me, for I go where music is born.”

Giordano Bruno after being sentenced to death by being burned alive at the stake: ‘Perhaps you, my judges, pronounce this sentence against me with a greater fear than I receive it.’

“A gang of lads, morally neglected, and in that respect inferior to the intermediate class, but in good physical training, attack and throw another set, trained neither physically nor morally, and make off with their food and their dainty clothes. What more is called for than a laugh?” Plotinus, The Enneads, III.2.8

‘It is easy to be good, it is difficult to be just.’ Victor Hugo

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy. Doris Day

Everything that is honourable in life depends upon the cultivation of duty, and everything dishonourable upon its neglect. Cicero.