Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
Official truth is not actual truth.
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
Great men are almost always bad men.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.