3.0 · 40 votes · 161 reads
Their most read quotes
3.3 · 61 votes
3.1 · 47 votes · 177 reads
Government and Politics
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.4.3 · 54 votes · 138 reads
Thought and Reason
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.4.0 · 35 votes · 118 reads
Government and Politics
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.4.6 · 16 votes · 200 reads
Government and Politics
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.3.9 · 30 votes · 73 reads
Various
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.3.6 · 42 votes · 135 reads
Thought and Reason
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.3.5 · 30 votes · 164 reads
Art and Culture
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.3.7 · 54 votes · 108 reads
Art and Culture
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.3.5 · 14 votes · 38 reads
Thought and Reason
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.4.6 · 43 votes · 187 reads
Government and Politics
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.4.6 · 49 votes · 137 reads
Thought and Reason
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.4.1 · 38 votes · 151 reads
Feelings
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.3.0 · 12 votes · 5 reads
Thought and Reason
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.4.1 · 28 votes · 107 reads
Thought and Reason
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.4.9 · 58 votes · 100 reads