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.
Mary RenaultTags: alexander fire-from-heaven mary-renault
Alexander offered him (Aristotle)a hand to mount the gangplank, and
tried the effect of a smile. When the man returned it, it could be seen that
smiling was what he would do best; he would not often be caught with
his head back laughing. But he did look like a man who would answer
questions.
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Niko does seem to have a buzzard's luck, don't he? Thor said after a moment.
Tyler slanted a look at him. "What the hell does that mean?"
Thor looked startled, then grinned. "Means he's been diggin' up more snakes than he can kill."
Tyler looked at Alexander. "Is he even speaking english?"
"Niko has bad luck," Alexander translated.
Tyler looked at Thor. "You couldn't just say that?"
"I did, son, but you just can't seem to spot a goat in a flock of sheep."
Tyler scowled. "I'm pretty sure that was a insult."
"Only because it was," Niko said.
"How the hell am I supposed to get all self-righteous and pissed if I can't understand what the idiot is saying?
Tags: tyler alexander niko thor
You got a problem?"
"Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.
Mary RenaultTags: alexander mary-renault the-persian-boy
For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.
Alexander PopeTags: politics government political pope alexander
You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
Paullina SimonsTags: alexander
Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything?
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: america rulers alexander
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]
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