Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

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.

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You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

Film is a collection of many mediums and collaboration and you're only as strong as the people you're working with - and everybody owns their mediums.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.