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 barbarians.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Eats first, morals after.

The fate of man is man.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

One must live well to know what living is.