Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
