“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day”

“A man can die but once.”

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth”

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic”

“Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many times”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”