The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.