There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?
Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.