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Civilization is a perishable commodity.

One doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.