History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.