Genji

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Mo Ran at first wanted to recite some earthshakingly romantic lines of poetry, but unfortunately, he was the kind of illiterate who could name his own ruling era something akin to “Cock.”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

“S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)”
― Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet

“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension