Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.