Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.