Brave hearts do not back down back off.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.