The corrupt are stupid: they simply raise the circulation of currency and increase the transaction cost.
All civilization is basically enslavement. Empowering slavery.
Wake me not – For I have never slept.- Sleep how can I – Awoke I never was.
As you age it is not the wealth, nor power, but love and peace that sustain you.
Me, who? Wish I knew!
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
More people fail than they succeed. Yet few are trained to cope with failure in good grace, thus compounding the misery.
Every sacrifice is basically intelligent selfishness.
Those who criticize you acknowledge that you are too important for them to ignore you. Empathize, rather than hate them!
Be happy your way, with your means. It’s foolish to be unhappy trying to be happy in the ways of other people.