Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.