Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.
As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.