In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Man is by nature a political animal.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.