Hercules

"I've learned that chaos is easier to manage than order."

"Loyalty is a commodity; everyone has their price."

"The path to power is paved with compromise and ambition."

"Life is a game, and I intend to win."

"Friendship is a transaction between equals or a master and slave."

"I don't deal in hope; I deal in certainties."

"Wisdom is knowing what you want and taking it."

"Courage is stupidity dressed in noble clothing."

"Change is inevitable; controlling it is the real victory."

"Health is just the slow death of procrastination."

"Politics is the art of deception perfected."

"Literature is how the dead try to speak to the living."

"Technology is merely the tool of today's tyrant."

"Imagination is wasted on those without power to enact it."

"Adventure is where the ambitious prove themselves."

"Happiness is a fleeting illusion."

"Gratitude is beneath my station."

"Perseverance is just stubbornness with a better PR team."

"Kindness is a liability."

"Family is a weakness to be exploited."

"Education teaches obedience; true learning demands independence."

"Faith is a comfort for the powerless."

"Music masks the screams of the damned."

"Science explains the 'how,' but I control the 'why.'"

"Art is the propaganda of the powerful."

"Solitude allows for the best plotting."

"Relationships are tools to be used and discarded."

"Inspiration is fleeting; control is eternal."

"Motivation comes from within, or from a sword at your back."

"War is the ultimate expression of ambition."