He who commands thirty legions is wiser than I am.

Little soul, wandering and pale, guest and companion of my body, into what places will you now depart — bloodless, rigid, naked — never again to share your familiar jests?

Name ten men fit to rule Rome — no, nine; I already know one of them, Servianus.

This is the city of Hadrian, and not of Theseus.

All life is problem solving.

-- Karl Popper

I want to see Mount Fuji.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

What I wanted was simple: to preserve what existed.

-- Klemens von Metternich

I have long known how much of an oddity we are in today's world.

-- Franz Joseph I of Austria

We shall be crushed.

-- Napoleon III

I cannot live without books.

-- Thomas Jefferson