The man who sleeps on a warning does not deserve one. What wait till tomorrow? I will go today? - Mary Renault

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.