“ Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ”
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
~ Diogenes
Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: To know one's self.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
