A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.