“There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lovers whisper, irresistiblemagic to make the sanest man go mad.”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

“but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”

“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, youd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combatc...”

“Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no oneso mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I ...”

“But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as wellfor your own sons death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebelsIve lost the will to live, t...”

“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.”