This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation.

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see.

We are most asleep when awake.

I think you make impacts by taking risks.

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.