the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people - Geoffrey Chaucer

Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar.

the harm that’s in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.

One night the citizens of Rome revolted Against his tyrannies and mad ambition And, when he heard them mutiny, he bolted Alone and sought his friends for coalition. The more he knocked and begged them for admission The more they shut their doors and said him nay. And then he saw that of his own perdition He was sole author and he fled away. The people yelled for him and rumbled round So that their shouts were dinning in his ear: ‘Where’s Nero? Where’s the tyrant? Treacherous hound!