And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable pre-eminence (political

appointment) through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual
abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and the
moderate; the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the
bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish
persuits. These will thrust themselves into your government and be your rulers.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN on June 2nd, 1787 at
the 6th working session of the constitutional
convention.

Place before the eyes of such men, a post of honour that shall be at the same time a place
of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The struggles for them are the
true sources of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the Nation, distracting its
councils, hurrying sometimes into fruitless and mischievous wars, and often compelling a
submission to dishonorable terms of peace.

“To have a fool for a father is a grief. And to have a fool for a son is a grief”

“Politics is war without blood-shed, but war is politics with blood-shed” (MILE ZIDON)

“Spend your time wishing and you will come to a bad end at last”

“What sensible person would enjoy having a boil because it gives a little pleasure to bath
it occasionally?”

“No one minds feeling an eye-lash on the palm of his hand, but everyone is irritated when
it drops into his eye”

“It is better to be wronged than to do, and sometimes happiness is to be cheated than to
trust” (JOHNSON).

When God dishes your rice in a basket, don’t desire for soup. (An African proverb)

Fight the lion when it comes for your brother, but beg the woman when she comes for
your brother. (An African proverb)

When your tongue runs hundred meters down into your mother’s vigina and you use your
teeth to retrieve it, it does not mean that you went to bed with her. (An African proverb)

The eagle runs the sky but ends up in a small net. (An African proverb)

When a child sees honey, he throws off the bean cake. (An African proverb)

It is ignorant that makes the rabbit challenge the cat to a wrestling contest. (An African
proverb)
Life is a teacher, the more you live the more you learn. (An African proverb)

You can not stop the bird from flying over your head, but you can certainly stop it from
making a nest in your head. (Martin Luther)

Whether you think you can or can not, you are right. (Henry Ford)

“The world is too dangerous to live in, not because of the people who do evil, but
because of those who sit and watch it happen” Albert Einstein.