It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.