December 17, 2025

If you are involved in important affairs or seeking power, you must exaggerate your successes.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Let me repeat in a slightly different way: genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not similarly handicapped.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.