True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

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.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.