The Happy Are An Exception

Know How To Play The Card Of Contempt. It Is The Most Politic Kind Of Revenge. For There Are Many Of Whom We Should Have Known Nothing If Their Distinguished Opponents Had Taken No Notice Of Them. There Is No Revenge Like Oblivion, For It Is The Entombment Of The Unworthy In The Dust Of Their Own Nothingness.

Man Is Born A Barbarian, And Only Raises Himself Above The Beast By Culture.

It Requires As Much To Tell The Truth As To Conceal It.

There Are Certain Inessential Activities-moths Of Precious Time-and It Is Worse To Busy Yourself With The Trivial Than To Do Nothing.

The Greatest Wisdom Often Consist In Ignorance.