“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”

“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”

“Dune was a world of paradox nowa world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”