In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.