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.

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.

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

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).