" Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for, by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgement, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "

― Robert Greene , The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature