We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.