Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

The true artist can only labor con amore.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.