Quotes

Divine nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

I am never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.

I will either find a way or make one.

Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not yet become lord of a single one?

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

To fight and conquer in a hundred battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in subduing the enemy without fighting.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.