Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.