“Love is the wish to give, not to receive.”

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

Only bad generals need heroes.

I don’t trust him. We’re friends.

But something’s missing.

Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

One must live well to know what living is.

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?