The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.
If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.