Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.