What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?