Democracy: Rule by a minority clique by manipulating the majority vote.
All civilization is basically enslavement. Empowering slavery.
Success: The fruitful confluence of favourable circumstances.
Destiny: an excuse for inaction.
Those in command of themselves seldom need approval of others. And those that constantly seek it are seldom confident and secure.
Politics: The fine art of appearing to do, while doing nothing.
An unjust system judges people merely by the work they did; a just system should also consider what they could and didn’t.
One who has yet to fail has yet to take a worthy challenge.
Madness and genius is merely a matter of degrees.
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.