Edward III

“I have heard that in war haste can be folly, but have never seen delay that was wise.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Man is never so authentically himself than when at play.”
― Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man

“O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the innermost citadel of hallowed Troy, was made to stay grievously about the coasts of men, the sport of their customs, good and bad, while his heart, through all the sea-faring, ached with an agony to redeem himself and bring his company safe home. Vain hope – for them. The fools! Their own witlessness cast them aside. To destroy for meat the oxen of the most exalted Sun, wherefore the Sun-god blotted out the day of their return. Make this tale live for us in all its many bearings, O Muse.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“I think therefore I am”
― René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy