There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.