The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

Water is the best of all things.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Learn what you are and be such.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.