Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
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.
I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.