Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
Seems like every other day there's somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, "I can't believe he did that, I can't believe she did that. "
I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.
The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.