God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.