| Quote | Person | Lived |
| 'The life of man appears for a short space' | |
| 'The moving finger writes' | |
| 'For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death' | |
| 'Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith' | |
| 'I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can' | |
| 'Abandon hope, all ye who enter here' | |
| 'I have not told half of what I saw' | |
| 'Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames' | |
| 'Whoso pulleth out this sword of the stone ... is rightwise king born of all England' | |
| 'In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king' | |
| | Quote | Person | Lived |
| 'I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free' | |
| 'A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise' | |
| 'Learning never exhausts the mind' | |
| 'If only we face the facts, as they say, with both eyes open' | |
| 'Nature abhors a vacuum' | |
| 'To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German' | |
| 'I have the heart and stomach of a king' | |
| 'Knowledge is power' | |
| 'Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?' | |
| 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more' | |
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