Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
God made the water but men made the wine.
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.