“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”

“It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies”

“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”

“Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.”

“The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist... Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.”

“The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.”

“I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.”