Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods

Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.

You must become like yourself.

And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force such as men or gods have never seen - a force worth reckoning with, if you were of a mind. And something was of that mind. And something else opposed it. He should have expected that. Battle in the heavens, battle on the earth.

I must decide if you deserve to die.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.