“The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.”

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

I am my nearest neighbour.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

They make a desert and call it peace.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.

You have to learn to use it responsibly.

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave.

As television is learning some of the movies’ great tricks, movies are taking what’s good from TV.

Don’t just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.