Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.