The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
We can never cease to be ourselves.
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.