On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.