Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.