It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

Success has always been a great liar.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.