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The Author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.

Better is the arch-enemy of 'Good.'

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions.

Democracy is the name of a form of rule, not of a form of obedience. It is the name of a situation in which the people are in the sovereign seat of power, which means that they have power over the law.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Freedom is the right to do whatever the laws permit.

Ignorance is the mother of all traditions.

Judaism is the mother of two daughters (islam and Christianity) which have loaded her with a thousand bruises. And yet, she ceases not to glory in having brought them forth: She has made use of both of them to encircle the whole earth, just as her venerable age embraces all time.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

A Nation is capable of losing its liberties in a day and yet not miss them in a century.