"He has no worse enemy than himself...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.”

“In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.”

“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?”

“A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.”

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.”

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

“Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.”