This is a good and sufficient reason for a general to die; it is right that he should care for nothing so much as glory.

If he want that, then take it that he lacks all else.
For nothing about a king is more on men's lips than his repute.

I was credited with the height of understanding and eloquence.

But I have been stripped of both the things wherein I was thought to excel, and am all the more miserable because I, the conqueror of kings, am seen conquered by a peasant.

Why grant life to him whom thou hast robbed of honour?
I have lost sister, realm, treasure, household gear, and, what is greater than them all, renown: I am luckless in all chances, and in all thy good fortune is confessed.