Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith.

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.