„The only person with whom I felt any kinship with died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him.”
„His vision of a united world… well, it was unprecedented. I wanted… *needed* to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity’s teaching to our world, *today*. And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them.”
„I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, „Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, „But doctor… I am Pagliacci.” Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.”
„Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn’t kill Osterman… did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the Sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they can hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you’re just a man. The world’s smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.”
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