Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory
There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.
Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it.
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.