“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”

“…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

“I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men”

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

“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.”