“Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.”

Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.

A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.

Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Let No One Fall Idle.

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.

My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden.

The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.

The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.

I know there is a terrible distance between us. But our bodies are made of stardust, and we are hurtling through space and time, toward the most beautiful collision.

Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to know one other.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.