Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love. - Mary Renault

Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.

I know I thought of many things: of death, and fate, and what the gods want of man; how far a man can move within his moira, or, if all is determined, what makes one strive; and whether one can be a king without a kingdom.

When I rode on to meet the army, I learned a thing one never forgets after: how much easier it is to move the many than the few.