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

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.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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.