Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.