In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.