“A bad peace is worse than war.”

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”

“There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.”

“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”