Finality is not the language of politics.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

He deserves to win.

Competence like truth beauty and contact lenses is in the eye of the beholder.

As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

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