Tao Te Ching

“Nobody ever suggested that he was corrupt, or ambitious in any vulgar way, or that anything he did was actuated by fear or malice... One feels of him that there was much he did not understand, but not that there was anything that he was frightened of saying or thinking... regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!”

— George Orwell 1903 – 1950 CE
English, poet, humanist, apostle of doubt, and powerful political influence
from Reflections on Gandhi (1949)