I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude...we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.