Long Is The Road From

There Are Pretenders To Piety As Well As To Courage.

Even Rome Cannot Grant Us A Dispensation From Death.

I Prefer An Interesting Vice To A Virtue That Bores.

There Is No Fate More Distressing For An Artist Than To Have To Show Himself Off Before Fools, To See His Work Exposed To The Criticism Of The Vulgar And Ignorant.

...all The Failures Of The Great Leaders Have Arisen Merely From A Lack Of Skill In Dancing.