Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.