Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.