One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.