This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.