“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.”

Every light is not the sun.

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

My whole life has been a hallow waste, a futile exercise, for no one at death can take anything with them!

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

My treasure lies in my friends .

There are no more worlds to conquer

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

A king does not kill messengers.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.