The Spirit Of Moderation Should Also Be

With Truths Of A Certain Kind, It Is Not Enough To Make Them Appear Convincing: One Must Also Make Them Felt. Of Such Kind Are Moral Truths.

An Empire Founded By War Has To Maintain Itself By War.

Slowness Is Frequently The Cause Of Much Greater Slowness.

The Coffee Is Prepared In Such A Way That It Makes Those Who Drink It Witty: At Least There Is Not A Single Soul Who, On Quitting The House, Does Not Believe Himself Four Times Wittier That When He Entered It.

No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.