Obedience mother is of good success, Sure pledge of safety. - Aeschylus

Τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ.

Yet again, isn’t there something terrible in randomness — the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it’s just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.

Even so is the Libyan fable famed abroad: the eagle, pierced by the bow-sped shaft, looked at the feathered device, and said, “Thus, not by others, but by means of our own plumage, are we slain.