Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.
An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.
Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.