Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
HomerThus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
HomerYou, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, youโd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combatโcoward!
HomerZeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
Homer