It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.