Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
The less men think, the more they talk.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.