Thiago d'Evecque

“In a hundred years no one you know will be alive. What will it matter if we fight or just spend our days sleeping in the sun?"

Zhenjin blinked at him, unable to understand his father's strange mood.

"If it doesn't matter, then why are we going to fight your brother?"

"Perhaps I haven't said it well. I mean it doesn't matter if we change the world. The world moves on and new lives come and go. Genghis himself said he would be forgotten and, believe me, he left a long shadow. It does matter how we live, Zhenjin! It matters that we use what we are given, for just our brief time in the sun." He smiled to see his son struggling with the idea. "It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I didn't waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.”
― Conn Iggulden, Conqueror

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Hydarnes: When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun!
Leonidas: Good; then we will fight in the shade.”
― Frank Miller, 300