Sinan

“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am /
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”
― Thomas Wyatt

“I found the city built of brick and left it built of marble,’ this”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome