There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.