Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him..

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes..

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled..

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living..

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold..

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism..

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of int….

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits..

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird..

Many a necklace becomes a noose..

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them..

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity..

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And m….

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a statio….

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones..

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks..

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurre….

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities..

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate..

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows..

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water..