The first one who uses "but", has lost the argument. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death

In the old days, privilege came with obligations — except for the small class of intellectuals who served a patron or, in some cases, the state. You want to be a feudal lord — you will be first to die. You want war? First in battle. Let us not forget something embedded in the U.S. Constitution: the president is commander in chief. Caesar, Alexander, and Hannibal were on the battlefield — the last, according to Livy, was first-in, last-out of combat zones. George Washington, too, went to battle, unlike Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, who played video games while threatening the lives of others.

Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away.