Mohamad

“for ambition stirs imagination nearly as much as imagination excites ambition.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

“The measure of a man’s estimate of your strength,” he finally told them, “is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“Equality of value, does not mean identicality of rules.”
― Mohammed Hijab

“And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else’s wife, to exert oneself to discipline one’s desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, to train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety, to give oneself trouble how not to thirst for notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to inquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends?”
― Musonius Rufus, That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic