Truberta

“Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.”
― Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
― Pietro Aretino

“There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they seize only on the defect he has.”
― Baldesar Castiglione

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion