Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.
Honor is decency without vanity.