My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I came to see a king [Alexender The Great], not a row of corpses.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.