For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.[Alexander’s tombstone epitaph]
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.