"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Such was the burial they gave to Hector, tamer of horses."

"Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus..."

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."

"All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious."

"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."

"Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow"

"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist."