“The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.