An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Nationality: French Type: Mathematician Born: March 31, 1596 Death: February 11, 1650 |
“I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”
“We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.”