Lori Sheats

“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“They next proceed to make a law which fixes a sum of money as the qualification of citizenship; the sum is higher in one place and lower in another, as the oligarchy is more or less exclusive; and they allow no one whose property falls below the amount fixed to have any share in the government. These changes in the constitution they effect by force of arms, if intimidation has not already done their work.”
― Plato, The Republic

“When a real battle starts, you’ll always find that there is no bravest man.”
― Jackson Crawford, The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

“A rising tide might lift all boats but if you were without one, you drowned.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Dublin Trilogy Deluxe Part 1