Epigram

 

“Shall I always have to turn away from what surrounds me in order to look for my true place? Must home for me always be in the distance? How should I ever rest, if there is something better? When I see and adopt the better thing, don’t I make it mine, don’t I prove that it was always mine by divine right? Why should it still seem half foreign and unsatisfying?”

—George Santayana, The Last Puritan

“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”

—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince