In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

Man makes god in his own image.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.