Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.
We know. We've seen it all before.
I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
Vengeance is disappointing, always.
Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.
I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."
Painful things are quickly forgotten.
Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.
Gods have bloody hands.
The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.
I must decide if you deserve to die.
For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.
I won't go back and live in the sea again.
I want to live like a man.
Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.
Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.
Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.
Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.
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