Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.