Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

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

Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

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