Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.