What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.
A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.