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

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

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.

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

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.