How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.