Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.