There are things you have to be an expert in to not understand them.
Inner freedom flourishes where attachment diminishes. - Stoicism
Stoic Thoughts
Love is selfishness for two.
Madame de Staël
The instability of the people demands firmness from the ruler.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Regulations are similar to the rites of a religion, which seem absurd, but shape men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
There are those who attribute to its value what it owes to luck.
Publius Siro