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The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.