In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion franaise, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated histo… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.

When you look at the past, the past will always be deterministic, since only one single observation took place.

The observation of the numerous misfortunes that attend all conditions forbids us to grow insolent upon our present enjoyments, or to admire a man's happiness that may yet, in course of time, suffer change. For the uncertain future has yet to come, with all variety of future; and to him only to whom the divinity has [guaranteed] continued happiness until the end we may call happy.