We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.

It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

I want Americans to know that Guantánamo​ happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.

To me it's so much like Spaced in that way. Um, which I love so much, so I think fans of that and fans of the comics are going to really see that up on the screen.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.