Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived…” (Bk2:3)

..the happy hum of humanity.

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.