“Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. ”

“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”

“One omen is best; Defending the fatherland”

“There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.”

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this way or that like a practiced speaker, but held it motionless, even as a man unskilled in the arts of persuasion. One would declare him mute with passion or wanting in judgment. But when he spoke, when his powerful voice went forth from his bosom, issuing words which fell like flakes of snow in winter, surely no mortal man might hope to compete with Odysseus. Lost in wonder we sat, but not, as before, at his manner.”

“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”