Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin
Homer, The Odyssey.
“Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.”
“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
“No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best cl...”
“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
“For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the ...”
“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter...”
“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”
“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”
“War is what happens when language fails.”
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”