Facts are the enemy of truth.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.