A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.