Society and the World

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it’s a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their colour.

Quoi que vous fassiez, écrasez l’infâme, et aimez qui vous aime.

Governments need both shepherds and butchers.

God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.

God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Common sense is not so common.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

[Men] use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.

These two nations have been at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and … they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth.

These two nations have been at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and … they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things.

Ultima Thule.

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

Bella, horrida bella,

Varium et mutabile semper Femina.