Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.
Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.