Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Pleasant words are the food of love.