One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

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

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.

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

death was the price of life.

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.