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“Ulpian, a jurist (d. ca. 229 CE), explained the basic principles of Roman law this way: “The rules of law are to live honestly, to harm no person, and to give to each his due.”
― John M. Riddle, A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500

“Dedication To all my enemies: I could not have done it without you.”
― Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

“Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the natural self-preservation reaction was to do as little as possible and hope that nobody would notice you.”
― Bill Browder, Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
― Iain Banks