No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Every advantage has its tax

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.