Alas for this mad melancholy beast man! What phant — Friedrich Nietzsche
Alas for this mad melancholy beast man! What phantasies invade it, what paroxysms of perversity, hysterical senselessness, and mental bestiality break out immediately, at the very slightest check on its being the beast of action.
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Never ruin an apology with an excuse
Benjamin Franklin
Never underestimate your own ignorance. speech
Albert Einstein
He who controls the past controls the future. "Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell