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

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

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

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

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

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 tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.