it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.