The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.