Tao Te Ching

“To my father's ferocious pedagogy I owe the endurance and obstinacy which have always stood by me in times of difficulty. To this ferocity I also owe all the indomitable thoughts which govern me now at the end of my life and which do not condescend to accept comforting from either God or the devil.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco