A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.