"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries".(Julius Caesar 4 iii)

#shakespeare #affairs #fortune #shallows #miseries

At least two thirds of our #miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
#AldousHuxley