Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
True friends share everything, except the past before they met.
Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.