“For too much rest becomes a pain.”

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

The force of union conquers all.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

We men are wretched things.