Famous quotes containing the words european, source and/or book:
“Assassination is the perquisite of princes.”
—19th-century European court cliché.
“To not know would be a source of pain.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar—that I call an achievement.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)