Éanna Morley

“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
― John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi