General Sayings
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The imagination is nothing but decaying sense.
Absoluteness of power is the most seductive of all illusions.
I'm not a prophet. I'm just a historian.
If you want to achieve something, you build a structure. If you want to prevent something, you mess it up.
No one has the right to obey.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
When you have decided that you are going to take a bath, be careful how you act, and don't make a scene.
Never venture, never win!
Men are always more easily deceived when they are trying to deceive others.
The English are busy; they have no time to be polite.
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
The being who will not reason is a bigot; the being who cannot reason is a fool; and the being who dares not reason is a slave.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
An ounce of action is worth a pound of theory.
The government is not a babysitter.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent.
I would rather be whole than good.
We are what we have been rewarded for being.