Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to.