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

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.