“A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.”

“Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”

“It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

“I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another”

“Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.”

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”