Author of quotes: Rafael Sabatini

Heroes are only those who, regardless of the risk and not caring about their own interests, perform feats, to whom they have no obligation.

Extremes meet and often merge so that they are difficult to distinguish.

Enemies - the price of fame. Only the one who costs nothing has no enemies.

He was both a man of action and man of ideas - a combination as rare, however sad the consequences.

- Yes, hell was created for Christians. Perhaps that is why they seek to turn the earth into his likeness.

When all arguments have been exhausted, our final judgment about others is imposed on the basis of what we think about ourselves.

Ingratitude, of course, the human property, but to prove it is childish.

Captain blood used to say that a person should not be judged by his ability to conceive a great enterprise, but by the way he is able to recognize the opportunity and promptly use it.

One of the strangest features of human nature is that people have a solid idea about some things, yet is horrified when convinced that his view is true.

... crazy revenge is the property of those people who do wrong and wrong. They bring themselves to madness, to justify any of their actions.

... my price is exactly ten feet. That is the sum your uncle paid for me. Not everyone has a similar opportunity to know his worth.

Humanity is shown not only in reasonable actions. Sometimes it is better to err in the name of humanity, even if this error, even as an exception, due to compassion.

As you can expect from a man of sincerity, when at the core of human nature lies the hypocrisy? We are brought up in hypocrisy, live them, and rarely realize it.

I speak as a Republican. I want in France was a society that chooses its government of the best representatives of every class and denies the right of any of the classes to seize power, whether nobility, clergy, bourgeoisie or proletariat, as the power concentrated in the hands of one class, detrimental to the common good.