When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
François de La Rochefoucauld·1665We all have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.
Oscar Wilde·1892We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Samuel Johnson·1750We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
