All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.