Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.