“Life is largely a matter of expectation. ”

“It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.”

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

“I say no wealth is worth my life.”

“My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius”

“All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.”

“Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot... A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound. When I wound a man, though I but graze his skin, it is another matter, for my weapon will lay him low. His wife will tear her cheeks out for grief and his children will be fatherless: there he will rot, reddening the earth with his blood, and vultures, not women, will gather round him.”