It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.