"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war."

"You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—co…"

"Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything."

"There will be killing 'till the score is paid. You forced yourselves upon his house."

"The gods have woven misery into mortal lives, that there might be songs for men to come."