He brought every distinguished citizen under his foot.

Had Sulla been illiterate, he could neither have won his victories nor issued his proscriptions.

The Fortunate.

If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.

-- Katsushika Hokusai

Art is whatever the artist says it is.

-- Marcel Duchamp

I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.

-- Johannes Kepler

From Moses to Moses, none arose like Moses.

-- Moshe ben Maimon

What I wanted was simple: to preserve what existed.

-- Klemens von Metternich

I am a rock of order.

-- Klemens von Metternich