Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.