Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

Generosity is never out of season.

I won't go back and live in the sea again.

Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."

‎Old enough to kill means old enough to die