“It is the duty of a man to have preferences, but he must not exclude anyone”
Letters, Voltaire

“…for there are many who can ask, but not reply”
Politia, verse 336, Plato

“Were more than you expect, or more than’s fit,
since every worth in show commends itself”
Pericles, act 2, scene 2, William Shakespeare

“The cautious seldom err”
Selected works, Confucious

“To have an opinion on major issues is a decreasing swing between two extremes”
Logic, Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Whatever we do is execution on “grande move”, of what we have already performed, briefly and quickly, inside ourselves”
Aesthetics, p 50, Benedetto Croze

“Virtues are shaped inside a man by his acting in practice”
Ethics, II, 4, Aristoteles