Nothing Is So Easy As To Deceive

Every Advantage In The Past Is Judged In The Light Of The Final Issue.

It Is The Natural Disposition Of All Men To Listen With Pleasure To Abuse And Slander Of Their Neighbour, And To Hear With Impatience Those Who Utter Praises Of Themselves.

Nothing Is More Easy Than To Deceive One's Self, As Our Affections Are Subtle Persuaders.

We Need Money, For Sure, Athenians, And Without Money Nothing Can Be Done That Ought To Be Done.

Since We Are Not Yet Fully Comfortable With The Idea That People From The Next Village Are As Human As Ourselves, It Is Presumptuous In The Extreme To Suppose We Could Ever Look At Sociable, Tool-making Creatures Who Are From Other Evolutionary Paths And See Not Beasts, But Brothers, Not Rivals, But Fellow Pilgrims Journeying To The Shrine Of Intelligence...the Difference... Is Not In The Creature Judged, But In The Creature Judging.