Moonblight

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise