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“Always it is, that the hearts in the younger men are frivolous,
but when an elder man is among them, he looks behind him
and in front, so that all comes out far better for both sides.”

“Rosy-fingered Dawn.”

“On valour's side the odds of combat lie,
The brave live glorious, or lamented die;
The wretch who trembles in the field of fame,
Meets death, and worse than death, eternal shame.”

“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”

“Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide”

“You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!”

“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers.
Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.”

“Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.”

“No shame in running,
fleeing disaster, even in pitch darkness.
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.”

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

“And empty words are evil.”

“A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.”

“Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?”

“By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember”

“Too many kings can ruin an army”

“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”

“We men are wretched things.”

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.”