A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There...
Religions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.