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Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
As with sailing, so with politics: make your cloth too taut and the ship will dip and keel
As a feast to which all the guests contribute is better than a banquet furnished by a single man
Capitalism, as an institutional arrangement, has been singularly devoid of plausible myths.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
What is not necessary is dear at a penny.
Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go well together.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
