No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
