Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

One Must not Trifle with Love.

A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.