History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
Toleration is the best religion.
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.