Mr Shahabi

“In 1917, during his later impoverished years, Tesla was told he was to receive the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He turned the medal down. “You propose,” he said, “to honor me with a medal which I could pin upon my coat and strut for a vain hour before the members of your Institute. You would decorate my body and continue to let starve, for failure to supply recognition, my mind and its creative products, which have supplied the foundation upon which the major portion of your Institute exists.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Even while you know you are practicing a kind of deception on yourself, act like a king. You are likely to be treated as one.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“كيف يمكننا إطلاقا أن نقول أمرا عن الشيء من دون أن نكون مطلعين بشكل كاف على نوع الحقيقة التي تخصه؟ يمكن حالا أن نرد على ذالك بسؤال: كيف يمكننا أن نعرف أمرا ما عن الحقيقة الحقة حول الشيء إذا لم نعرف الشيء ذاته، حتى نحسم في شأن الحقيقة التي يمكن و يجب أن تخصه؟”
― Martin Heidegger, السؤال عن الشيء: حول نظرية المبادئ الترنسندنتالية عند كنت

“as Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control; love, never.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power