To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.