I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. - Mary Renault

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.