"So please go home and tend to your own tasks, / the distaff and the loom, and keep the women / working hard as well."

"There is no favor in the spear."

"Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth, our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man. So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees, he thinks he will never suffer afflictio…"

"Then welcome fate! 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and admire!"

"Therein are love, and desire, and loving converse, that steals the wits even of the wise."