Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.