"....They stand just to fall...."

"What's the use, after all, of mastering a horse and controlling him with the reins at full gallop if you're carried away yourself by totally unbridled emotions?...."

Different schools of philosophy

Below are mentioned some different schools of philosophies and their characteristics as described by Seneca in Letters from a Stoic.

"....fail to think about whatwe have done..."

".....Stop wherever you will - only make sure that you round it off with a good ending."

The same goes for relations. Doesn't matter how much they last.. what matters is how good were they while they lasted.

".....There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallized charcoal......"

Sherlock's description of the blue carbuncle...

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,"....