All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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