Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal