"I hate all explanations; they who make..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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“How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.”
“If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.”
“The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.”