Dulce Bellum Inexpertis. - War Is Lovely

Providence Has Decreed That Those Common Acquisitions, Money, Gems, Plate, Noble Mansions, And Dominion, Should Be Sometimes Bestowed On The Indolent And Unworthy; But Those Things Which Constitute Our True Riches, And Which Are Properly Our Own, Must Be Procured By Our Own Labor.

Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various That Nothing Can Be Clearly Known. This Was The Sound Conclusion Of The Academic Sceptics, Who Were The Least Surly Of Philosophers.

What Difference Is There, Do You Think, Between Those In Plato's Cave Who Can Only Marvel At The Shadows And Images Of Various Objects, Provided They Are Content And Don't Know What They Miss, And The Philosopher Who Has Emerged From The Cave And Sees The Real Things?

No One Respects A Talent That Is Concealed.

In The Kingdom Of The Blind, The One-eyed Man Is King.