Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
Nature has inclined us to love men.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain
Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.
You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.