Quote #8106
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Quote #21
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
Quote #23104
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...
Quote #11951
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not...
Quote #31772
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are...
Quote #335
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what...
Quote #11879
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to...
Quote #20585
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older...
Quote #12245
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little,...
Quote #8110
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.