A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

The property of power is to protect.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Example is better than following it.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.