Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

Every light is not the sun.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.