The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
We men are wretched things.
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?