Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.

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.

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.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.