John Morley: “His sublime intellectual probity never suffered itself to be tempted.”

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.