And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayo… - Isaac Asimov

the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

It is by the Imperial Capital that contemporaries (and posterity, too) judge an Empire, and its magnificence impresses them mightily and leads them to judge the Emperor a great man and hero, even though it may all be based on robbery, and though the provinces of the Empire may be sunk in misery.

La verdad científica está más allá de toda lealtad y deslealtad.

Algunos Eternos han llegado más allá del Siglo Ciento cincuenta mil. — ¿Qué aspecto tiene? — Completamente distinto del actual. Hay muchas especies vivientes, pero ninguna humana. El Hombre ha desaparecido.