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Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. — Ibn Taymiyyah

Overkill is the dust that settles on the stuff that took a lot of energy to build or buy, but turned out not to be necessary.

Que es la buena educacion? Toda buena educación parte necesariamente del reconocimiento de que el hombre es una criatura caída—pero redimible

Iphicrates: Personal benefits have to be earned through personal action. Money gained without fighting should not be conferred directly on specific persons.

Also:

• Coordination and organization is paramount. If any part of this body [army] was deficient, the army could not function to its potential. But if it lacked a “head” (i.e., a proper general), then it could be capable of nothing at all.
• Continuous innovation is necessary.
• Present a more formidable appearance than the enemy.
• Lead by example.
• Idleness is mother of sedition and mutiny.
• I would indeed be a fool if I could fight for the Athenians, and be unable to do the same for myself.

Most people prefer to suffer with interpretations that give their world meaning than to relax in the cave without an Ariadne’s thread. – David Riesman in “The Lonely Crowd”

Sinuhet říkal: Tvoje řeč je bzučení mouchy v mých uších