"Agamemnon…cuts off his arms, and then kicks the body to send it rolling into the throng of Trojan fighters, 'like a log'."

"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country."

"No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man-- Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breath…"

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."

"And it is not a good thing to be a guest in a strange land, for a man may be a burden to his host."