Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.
Achilles absent was Achilles still!
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men