Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.