One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.
It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
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.