The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.