Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.