Matheus Andrade

“Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“Said the reeve to the maid who was fresh to the farm
Let me show you the beasts of the yard!
Here's a cow that gives milk, and a pig that's for ham
Here's a cur and a goat and a lamb;
Here's a horse tall and proud and a well-trained old hawk,
But the thing you should see is this excellent cock!
Oh, some cocks rise early and some cocks stand tall,
But he cock now in question works hardest of all!
And they saw hard's a virtue, in a cock's line of work
So what say you, lovely, will you give it a-”
― Scott Lynch

“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince