>>24449228>Imagine using the same analogy to humans'It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity'.
- Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, 'De Principatibus (1532)'
>Wait, do you even have a degree?How to spot a dumb Asian.
'Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. ... He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself—and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary'.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 'Gedanken über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten (1872)'