"Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces." Gaius Julius Caesar, The Civil War, 3. 68.
"no sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. buy the ticket take the ride... and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than you had in mind, well... maybe chalk it off to forced ..consciousness expansion': tune in, freak out, get beaten."
"pain is not always enough. there are ocasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. but for everyone there is something unendurable-something that cannot be contemplated. courage and cowardice are not involved." 101
"people who say caesar was enviable are profoundly misguided. for no one can be said to have a happy life when its violent termination brings his slayers not merely impunity but the height of glory." cicero, first philipic
panders, seducers, flatterers, simoniacs, sorcerers, barrators, hypocrites, thieves, deceivers, sowers of discord and falsifiers - sins of the leopard
"But why must the Argives fight the Trojans? Why did Atreus' son assemble and bring us? Wasn't it for Helen's sake? Are Atreus' sons the only men who love their wives?" Iliad book 9
achillies now like inhuman fire raging on through the mountain gorges splinter-dry, setting ablaze big stands of timber, the wind swirling the huge fireball left and right- chaos of fire - achillies storming on with brandished spear like a frenzied god of battle trampling all he killed and the earth ran black with blood.