David Fleming

“We do naught but scratch the world, frail and fraught. Every vast drama of civilizations, of peoples with their certainties and gestures, means nothing, affects nothing. Life crawls on, ever on.”
― Steven Erikson

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations