Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbar...
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Those who are weak don't fight.Those who are stronger might fightfor an hour.Those who are stronger still might fightfor many years.The strongest fighttheir whole life.They are the indispensable ones.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
People who understand everything get no stories.
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.