"Wary, as if surrounded by strangers...." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.”

“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”

“The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.”

“A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.”

“As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.”

“Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.”

“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.”

“Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.”

“They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.”