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

At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

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

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

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

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.