The Fortunate.

Had Sulla been illiterate, he could neither have won his victories nor issued his proscriptions.

He brought every distinguished citizen under his foot.

From Moses to Moses, none arose like Moses.

-- Moshe ben Maimon

I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.

-- Johannes Kepler

Art is whatever the artist says it is.

-- Marcel Duchamp

If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.

-- Katsushika Hokusai

I have conquered twenty-four cities, each with their surrounding districts.

-- Mansa Musa

If Maximilian I was the last knight, Franz Joseph is the last monarch.

-- Franz Joseph I of Austria