We must indeed escape, but with our hands, not our feet.

Thus always to tyrants.

O Zeus, do not forget who is the cause of these evils.

It is better to rule no one than to be another man's slave: without ruling, one can still live honourably; as a slave, no condition of life is possible at all.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

-- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size or diversified in subject, has ever surpassed my courage.

-- Peter Paul Rubens

Seek knowledge, even as far as China.

-- Harun al-Rashid

So long as you officials do not hand out appointments recklessly, why should you fear what the people of the realm say?

-- Wu Zetian

She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!

-- Margaret of Anjou

How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex, to triumph like an Amazonian trull upon the woes of those whom Fortune captivates.

-- Margaret of Anjou