Epigraphs

“Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own.”
— Marcus Aurelius

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
— Immanuel Kant

“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
— African proverb

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde

“Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself must also die;
But the one thing that never dies is the fame of the one who has done well.”
— Hávamál