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

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.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

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

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

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