Nyxks Musings

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
–His son, Amschel Mayer Rothschild

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
–Lorraine Hansberry

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
–Oliver Goldsmith

You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
–Marquis De Vauvenargues

So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
–Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)