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.

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.

death was the price of life.

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

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.