famous words

[carmen510]

"The secret to creativity is to hide your sources"

-Albert Einstein

"God does not play dice with the universe. He does, however, hit the blackjack tables"

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

It's Attila the Hun who's supposed to have claimed to have been the scourge of God.

This is nitpicking I know but I think its was the Romans who called him that, and the Church that created a devilish image of him.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

"The interior of the Soviet Union is rotten. All I have to do is kick in the door and it will collapse."

- Adolf Hitler​

"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil."

- Robert E. Lee​

"It does not matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."

- Deng Xiaopeng​

 

[Kyriakos]

Some more literary ones:

"Cogito ergo sum" (i think therefore i am) Descartes

"Ουκ αν λάβεις παρά του μη έχοντος" (you cannot recieve from one who has not to give) Menippos the cynic, in a hilarious short story by Lucian, adressing Charon who, enraged, asked him once again to pay him for the boat-ride to the underworld

"No one had ever made Charon smile before, no one before had ever made him weep" Lord Dunsany, in a little gem of a story, titled Charon (there are many etexts of it online)

 

[scherbchen]

another one I always liked, since you bring up the ancients...

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam". Cato

roughly translates into (my latin is sketchy at best) furthermore I am of the opinion that Carthage is to be destroyed.

also "et tu Brute", although this one actually stems from the quill of the bard rather than Caesar himself.

 

[Adler17]

Well, Caesar spoke that in Greek: Kay sy, teknon (or similar).

Adler

 

[Kyriakos]

"Και συ, τέκνον Βρούτε"

 

[Adler17]

Thanks.

Adler