An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
If you heart had a voice, Beloved, what would it say?
Pray, and let God worry.
There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.