Max Türnau

“Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...”
― Richard Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelung

“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”
― Yukio Mishima, Sun & Steel