Great quote from Cicero: ”A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor - he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation - he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city - he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”

Amate gli animali: Dio ha donato loro i rudimenti del pensiero e una gioia imperturbata. Non siate voi a turbarla, non li maltrattate, non privateli della loro gioia, non contrastate il pensiero divino. Uomo, non ti vantare di superiorità nei confronti degli animali: essi sono senza peccato, mentre tu, con tutta la tua grandezza, insozzi la terra con la tua comparsa su di essa e lasci la tua orma putrida dietro di te; purtroppo questo è vero per quasi tutti noi. 🖊️ Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij🇷🇺