It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. . . . It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.
In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations. . . , by large law firms. . . on more than one occasion(, and). . . by special interests. . . (some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct.
I have a family. I'm married. I'm very, very happy. I wanted to make a movie for my wife and a movie that speaks to what it is to be in a long term, very, very committed relationship because at the heart that's really what it is.