stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
A fate is not a punishment.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.