Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
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.
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.