Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.