The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.