Shaun

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?'

Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.'

It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.”
― Marcus Porcius Cato