Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.