If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.