Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied., Sophocles, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC 406 BC)
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything., Joseph Conrad, English (PolishUkrainianborn) novelist (1857 1924)
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds., Herodotus, Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from Herodotus, Greek historian traveler (484 BC 430 BC)
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes., Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789), US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, printer (1706 1790)
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost., Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Italian national epic poet (1265 1321)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters., Daniel Webster, US diplomat, lawyer, orator, politician (1782 1852)