Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.