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.

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

Stories happen to those who tell them.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time