Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. - Erasmus

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

It is the most deplorable tribute when the succession of an inferior ruler turns his predecessor, who was intolerable while he lived, into someone whose integrity and goodness are sadly missed.

Bu dünyada tamamen yalnızım, çünkü hiçbir tarafın adamı olmadım ve Tanrı aklımı almadığı sürece de olmayacağım.