“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”

“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”

“If you would know and not be known live in a city.”

“If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.”

“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.”

“Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.”

“Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful...”

“Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational i...”

“From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and du...”