And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.