“A fox is subtlety itself.”

Under every stone lurks a politician.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

An actor should refine public taste.

Comedy is allied to justice.

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

Your story isn’t powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On social media, the only story that can achieve that goal is one told with native content.

A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

You’re not jesus. You don’t get a sacrificial lamb.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.