Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.