I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.
One never finds anything perfectly pure and. . . exempt from danger.
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.
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude. . . its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good. . . it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.