Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.