Alysanna/Quotes

From Masq
"What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels? racks? fires?
what flaying? boiling?
In leads or oils?
what old or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst?

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."
Jim Morrison

"Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe."
John Milton 1667

"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
Niccolo Machiavelli