Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

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

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth – and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.