We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.