He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. When we are not sure, we are alive. All things are difficult before they are easy. Urteil der Vernunft unvermeidlich verdirbt. Genius never desires what does not exist.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. A good traveler has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving.