When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.