It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.