What good would politics be$$$ if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither$$$ and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois$$$ and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

Courage is not the absence of fear -- it's inspiring others to move beyond it.

I could not begin to mourn Deborah or my mind would ride off with me. There was nothing so delicate in all the world as one's last touch of control.

At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times$$$ in changing$$$ no longer are in harmony with his ways.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him$$$ and then he will always find them faithful.

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself$$$ for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force$$$ and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.