Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse.

No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Touch is the first language we speak.