Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes