Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

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.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.