The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.