You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.