At least, there are many things which are farther reaching and less selfish in intent.

And who, by the way, holds the longest claim on history?
Your kind or this other?
The world does not perpetuate in its chronicles the continence of women; it is too small, too personal, too common to be noted.

Cleopatra were lost among the horde of forgotten sovereigns, had she wedded duly and scorned Mark Antony; Aspasia would have been buried in a gynaeconitis had she wedded Pericles, and Sappho--but the list is too long; I will not bury you in testimony." Laodice raised her head.
"You reason well," she said.

"It never occurred to me how wickedness could justify itself by reason.

But I observe now how serviceable a thing it is.