If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.