My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.