We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Faith is a gift of God.

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.