“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

A drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.