“Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?”

(Theoden, “The Two Towers”, movie by Peter Jackson)

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." (Oscar Wilde) 

"People learn more from a defeat than Kings do from triumph"     (Giuseppe Mazzini)