"I foresee a great funeral contest over..." - Quote by Alexander Great

“There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.”

“Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?”

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

“We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.”

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.”

“We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.”

“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.”

“The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.”

“Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.”