History should be written as philosophy.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.