Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
One who is allowed to sin, sins less
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.