“The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.”

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

They terrify lest they should fear.

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

Did i really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Look at us. Always choosing devastation followed enlightenment over spoon fed lessons.

Saying goodbye isn’t easy. Watching someone you loves goodbye is devastating. Because you can’t fix the pain.