...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Emma

“A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel.” The Prince

But when returning into herself she [the soul] reflects; then she passes into the realm of purity, and eternity, and immortality, and unchangeableness, which are her kindred, and with them she ever lives, when she is by herself and is not let or hindered; then she ceases from her erring ways, and being in communion with the unchanging is unchanging. And this state of the soul is called wisdom. The Trials Of Socrates

“Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind