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The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Who you are is less important than what you seem.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

Like the aristocracy, you can tell a reporter's status by his clothes and manners. The worse they are, the higher up they are,

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.

although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.

Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story.

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

I knew salesmen, they made good murderers.

Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything.

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.