When neither our fellows nor our gods spoil our plans, we spoil them ourselves. - Gene Wolfe

As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.

It’s easy—very easy—to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.

Whenever a man and a woman come to words or blows, fools are quick to attribute it to the differences between the sexes. The sexes differ much less than they wish to believe, and such differences as are real tend less to promote strife than to prevent it.