Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.